Nuclear Energy category: 275 books
High-Energy Charged Particles
Their Chemistry and Use as Versatile Tools for Nanofabrication
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
This book features comprehensive explanations from the classical theory of high-energy particle interactions with matter to their use for a novel nanofabrication technique for various organic soft materials. Potential readers include scientists and engineers in both academia and industry, as well...
Fukushima
Impacts and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 led Japan, and many other countries, to change their energy policies. David Elliott reviews the disaster and its global implications, asking whether, despite continued backing by some governments, the growing opposition to nuclear power means the end of the global nuclear renaissance.
by Bahman Zohuri
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This book covers the basic principles of both fusion and plasma physics, examining their combined application for driving controlled thermonuclear energy. The author begins by explaining the underlying scientific theory, and then goes on to explore the nuances of deployment within thermonuclear reactors....
Imagine a Nuclear Plant Radiation Incident That Ruins Your Life
What You Need to Know about Nuclear Power Plants and Radiation
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
If you live near a nuclear power plant or are concerned with the American quality of life and environment, you should read this book.
The author is a semi-retired nuclear professional with over 4 decades’ experience that includes being a former holder of a US NRC Senior Reactor Operator...
Fundamentals of Radiation Materials Science
Metals and Alloys
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
The revised second edition of this established text offers readers a significantly expanded introduction to the effects of radiation on metals and alloys. It describes the various processes that occur when energetic particles strike a solid, inducing changes to the physical and mechanical properties...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Understanding time-dependent behaviors of nuclear reactors and the methods of their control is essential to the operation and safety of nuclear power plants. This book provides graduate students, researchers, and engineers in nuclear engineering comprehensive information on both the fundamental theory...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, the objective of this study was to assess lessons the United States can incorporate into its disaster management plans from Japan's experience managing the relocation of communities due to the widespread contamination...
Probabilistic Safety Assessment for Optimum Nuclear Power Plant Life Management (PLiM)
Theory and Application of Reliability Analysis Methods for Major Power Plant Components
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Probabilistic safety assessment methods are used to calculate nuclear power plant durability and resource lifetime. Successful calculation of the reliability and ageing of components is critical for forecasting safety and directing preventative maintenance, and Probabilistic safety assessment for...
by Ryan McClarren
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Computational Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Science Using Python provides the necessary knowledge users need to embed more modern computing techniques into current practices, while also helping practitioners replace Fortran-based implementations with higher level languages. The book is especially...
Nuclear Power Plants: Innovative Technologies for Instrumentation and Control Systems
International Symposium on Software Reliability, Industrial Safety, Cyber Security and Physical Protection of Nuclear Power Plant
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
These proceedings present the latest information on software reliability, industrial safety, cyber security, physical protection, testing and verification for nuclear power plants. The papers were selected from more than 80 submissions and presented at the First International Symposium on Software...
Nuclear Facilities
A Designer's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Designing new nuclear facilities is an extraordinarily complex exercise, often requiring teams of specialists several hundred strong. Nuclear Facilities: A Designer’s Guide provides an insight into each of the main contributors and shows how the whole design process is drawn together.
Essential...
Nuclear Decommissioning
Its History, Development, and Current Status
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book discusses the history of nuclear decommissioning as a science and industry. It explores the early, little-known period when the term “decommissioning” was not used in the nuclear context and the end-of-life operations of a nuclear facility were a low priority. It then describes the subsequent...
Chernobyl
The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of...
Nuclear Safety in Light Water Reactors
Severe Accident Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
This vital reference is the only one-stop resource on how to assess, prevent, and manage severe nuclear accidents in the light water reactors (LWRs) that pose the most risk to the public. LWRs are the predominant nuclear reactor in use around the world today, and they will continue to be the most...