Nuclear power and engineering

Advances in Light Water Reactor Technologies focuses on the design and analysis of advanced nuclear power reactors.

This book gathers together contributions by experts from leading international research institutions and industries.

Radiation Detection: Concepts, Methods, and Devices provides a modern overview of radiation detection devices and radiation measurement methods.

This book discusses advanced Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) as a way to provide safe, clean, and affordable nuclear power options.

This book presents a compilation of selected papers from the Fourth International Symposium on Software Reliability, Industrial Safety, Cyber Security and Physical Protection of Nuclear Power Plant, held in August 2019 in Guiyang, China.

The first experiments with relativistic magnetrons (PM), resulted in notable results, in the USA - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the USSR - Institute of Applied Physics.

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union the nuclear threats facing the world are constantly evolving and have grown more complex since the end of the Cold War.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the fifth International Symposium on Software Reliability, Industrial Safety, Cyber Security and Physical Protection of Nuclear Power Plant, held in November 2020 in Beijing, China.

This book examines water resource management in China's electric power sector and the implications for energy provision in the face of an emerging national water crisis and global climate change.

Nuclear energy is the most controversial energy source in the 21st century.

Originally published in 1981.

The third, revised edition of this popular textbook and reference, which has been translated into Russian and Chinese, expands the comprehensive and balanced coverage of nuclear reactor physics to include recent advances in understanding of this topic.

A mathematically rigorous guide to convex optimization for power systems engineering.

Die hier vereinigten Vorlesungen, zuerst in der Universität Göttingen und dann in einer Vortragsreihe des NDR Hamburg gehalten, sind ein wissenschaftlicher Rechenschaftsbericht.

Who Needs Nuclear Power challenges conventional thinking about the role of civil nuclear power in a rapidly changing energy context, where new energy carriers are penetrating markets around the world.

Nuclear Power provides a concise, up-to-date, accessible guide to the most controversial form of power generation.

This is the first in a series of three proceedings of the 20th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC).

This book is the 1st volume of proceedings of the 1st Smart Nuclear Power Technology Forum and the 8th China Nuclear Power Plant Digital Technology and Application Seminar held in Shenzhen, China in June 2024.

This book discusses human reliability programs (HRPs) and their various elements, including safety and security case studies.

The world's dependence on fossil fuels is widely acknowledged to be a major cause of rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

This book describes the basic concepts of risk and reliability with detailed descriptions of the different levels of probabilistic safety assessment of nuclear power plants (both internal and external).

This book introduces radioisotopes and ionising radiations and their numerous applications.

This book contains the contributions of over 40 outstanding applied physicists from Japan specializing in this area of design technology.

This book provides for the first time an insider's view into ITER, the biggest fusion reactor in the world, which is currently being constructed in southern France.

This book comprises selected proceedings of the ThEC15 conference.

Fusion, Volume I: Magnetic Confinement, Part B is the second of the two-part volume that covers the complexity and application of controlled magnetic fusion.

The nuclear fuel cycle is characterised by the wide range of scientific disciplines and technologies it employs.

Instrumentation and Control Systems for Nuclear Power Plants provides the latest innovative research onthe design of effective modern I&C systems for both existing and newly commissioned plants, along withinformation on system implementation.

First Published in 2011.

This comprehensive volume offers readers a progressive and highly detailed introduction to the complex behavior of neutrons in general, and in the context of nuclear power generation.

This book fills the need for a coherent work combining carefully reviewed articles into a comprehensive overview accessible to research groups and lecturers.

This book presents a thermodynamic and economic analysis of gas-gas systems in power plants, including combined heat and power systems, combined cooling, heat and power systems, hydrogen production facilities and compressed energy storage system.

This ground-breaking reference provides an overview of key concepts in dimensional analysis, and then pushes well beyond traditional applications in fluid mechanics to demonstrate how powerful this tool can be in solving complex problems across many diverse fields.

Membrane reactors are increasingly replacing conventional separation, process and conversion technologies across a wide range of applications.

The potential development of any nuclear power programme should include a rigorous justification process reviewing the substantial regulatory, economic and technical information necessary for implementation, given the long term commitments involved in any new nuclear power project.

Nuclear Decommissioning Case Studies: Policies, Strategies, Planning and Knowledge Management focuses on policy, strategy, planning and knowledge management in nuclear decommissioning, offering readers guidance on events that occur in early stages of the lifecycle.

The clamor for non-carbon dioxide emitting energy production has directly impacted on the development of nuclear energy.

All engineers and applied scientists will need to harness the power of machine learning to solve the highly complex and data intensive problems now emerging.

This book addresses some of the controversies and uncertainties associated with reducing the extensive exploitation of fossil fuels due to their role in global warming.

This book provides a concise summary of the essential thermo-hydraulic analyses and design principles of nuclear reactors for electricity generation.

Dynamical Collision Theory and Its Applications reviews some of the powerful methods that have evolved for calculating the predictions of dynamical collision theory.

The site of a proposed repository for high-level radioactive waste from the nation's nuclear power plants is not at risk of ground water infiltration, concludes this important book.

This book provides an accessible introduction to radioactivity.

This volume contains the proceedings of an International Conference on "e;Spin and Isospin in Nuclear Interactions"e;, which was held in Telluride, Colorado USA, 11-15 March 1991.