CRC Press, 2009, 790 pp. -ISBN - 978-1-4200-5390-6.
The purpose of this Handbook is to provide an introduction to nuclear power reactors, the nuclear fuel cycle, and associated analysis tools, to a broad audience including engineers, engineering and science students, their teachers and mentors, science and technology joualists, and interested members of the general public. Nuclear engineering encompasses all the engineering disciplines which are applied in the design, licensing, construction, and operation of nuclear reactors, nuclear power plants, nuclear fuel cycle facilities, and finally the decontamination and decommissioning of these facilities at the end of their useful operating life. The Handbook examines many of these aspects in its three sections.
Contents:
Preface. Contributors.
Historical Development of Nuclear Power.
Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs).
Boiler Water Reactors (BWRs).
Heavy Water Reactors.
High-Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors.
Generation IV Technologies.
Nuclear Fuel Resources.
Uranium Enrichment.
Nuclear Fuel Fabrication.
Spent Fuel Storage.
Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing.
Waste Disposal: Transuranic Waste, High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel, and Low-Level Radioactive Waste.
Radioactive Materials Transportation.
Decontamination and Decommissioning.
HWR Fuel Cycles.
Risk Assessment and Safety Analysis for Commercial Nuclear Reactors.
Nuclear Safety of Govement Owned, Contractor Operated Nuclear (GOCO) Facilities.
Neutronics.
Radiation Protection.
Heat Transfer and Thermal Hydraulic Analysis.
Thermodynamics/Power Cycles.
Economics of Nuclear Power.
Index.
The purpose of this Handbook is to provide an introduction to nuclear power reactors, the nuclear fuel cycle, and associated analysis tools, to a broad audience including engineers, engineering and science students, their teachers and mentors, science and technology joualists, and interested members of the general public. Nuclear engineering encompasses all the engineering disciplines which are applied in the design, licensing, construction, and operation of nuclear reactors, nuclear power plants, nuclear fuel cycle facilities, and finally the decontamination and decommissioning of these facilities at the end of their useful operating life. The Handbook examines many of these aspects in its three sections.
Contents:
Preface. Contributors.
Historical Development of Nuclear Power.
Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs).
Boiler Water Reactors (BWRs).
Heavy Water Reactors.
High-Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors.
Generation IV Technologies.
Nuclear Fuel Resources.
Uranium Enrichment.
Nuclear Fuel Fabrication.
Spent Fuel Storage.
Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing.
Waste Disposal: Transuranic Waste, High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel, and Low-Level Radioactive Waste.
Radioactive Materials Transportation.
Decontamination and Decommissioning.
HWR Fuel Cycles.
Risk Assessment and Safety Analysis for Commercial Nuclear Reactors.
Nuclear Safety of Govement Owned, Contractor Operated Nuclear (GOCO) Facilities.
Neutronics.
Radiation Protection.
Heat Transfer and Thermal Hydraulic Analysis.
Thermodynamics/Power Cycles.
Economics of Nuclear Power.
Index.