Nuclear power and engineering

This hands-on textbook introduces physics and nuclear engineering students to the experimental and theoretical aspects of fission physics for research and applications through worked examples and problem sets.

This textbook introduces energy utilisation.

This textbook is the first comprehensive and systematic account of the science, technology and policy issues associated with nuclear energy and nuclear weapons.

This book gives an accessible overview of the 70-year history of nuclear fusion research and the vain attempts to construct an energy-generating nuclear fusion reactor.

From World War II to the present day, nuclear power has remained a controversial topic in the public eye.

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 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 book is the first comprehensive review of the subsurface monitoring theory and practice.

This carefully researched book presents facts and arguments showing, beyond a doubt, that nuclear fusion power will not be technically feasible in time to satisfy the world's urgent need for climate-neutral energy.

This book explores the physics, technology and applications of particle accelerators.

The development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant scientific events of the twentieth century.

The Compound-Nuclear Reaction and Related Topics (CNR*) international workshop series was initiated in 2007 with a meeting near Yosemite National Park.

This book reviews the current state of understanding concerning edge plasma, which bridges hot fusion plasma, with a temperature of roughly one million degrees Kelvin with plasma-facing materials, which have melting points of only a few thousand degrees Kelvin.

This book looks at Generation IV (GEN IV) nuclear reactor design and the technology known as nuclear micro reactors that is currently under development.

Written by a former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear inspector and nuclear security expert, this book provides a comprehensive and authentic overview of current global nuclear developments.

This book is written by two world-recognized experts in radio frequency (RF) systems for particle accelerators and is based on many years of experience in dealing with the multipactor phenomenon.

Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) is a structured, comprehensive, and logical analysis method aimed at identifying and assessing risks in complex technological systems, such as the nuclear power plants.

This book surveys reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) analyses of various engineering systems.

Have you ever wondered how a nuclear power station works?

This book describes repository solutions for all types of radioactive waste and residues in different geotechnical repository structures.

How does Einstein's description of space and time compare with Doctor Who?

This book strives to take stock of current achievements and existing challenges in nuclear verification, identify the available information and gaps that can act as drivers for exploring new approaches to verification strategies and technologies.

This book describes the four Nuclear Security Summits held over 2010-2016 at the initiative of U.

This unique text provides engineering students and practicing professionals with a comprehensive set of practical, hands-on guidelines and dozens of step-by-step examples for performing state-of-the-art, reliable computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and turbulence modeling.

How does Einstein's description of space and time compare with Doctor Who?

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.

Using primarily Russian sources, this book explains the political and economic aspects of nuclear power.

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

This PhD sought to determine the mechanisms for the reactor explosions by mapping, collecting and analysing samples from across the area of Japan that received radioactive fallout from the explosions.

This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on perceived safety.

This book presents a new and innovative approach for the use of heat pipes and their application in a number of industrial scenarios, including space and nuclear power plants.

This book explains the modelling and simulation of thermal power plants, and introduces readers to the equations needed to model a wide range of industrial energy processes.

This expanded new edition develops the theory of nuclear reactors from the fundamentals of fission to the operating characteristics of modern reactors.

This book introduces a quantum-mechanical description of the nuclear fission process from an initial compound state to scission.

This work introduces heavy ion beam probe diagnostics and presents an overview of its applications.

This book suggests a new bargain between the NPT nuclear weapon states and the non-NPT nuclear weapons possessor states, mainly India and Pakistan, through a regional arrangement to help move towards universalization of the nuclear nonproliferation regime.

This thesis investigates the behavior of two candidate materials (a-SiO2 and MgO) for applications in fusion (e.

This book explains the modelling and simulation of thermal power plants, and introduces readers to the equations needed to model a wide range of industrial energy processes.

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

Britain was the first country to exploit atomic energy on a large scale, and at its peak in the mid-1960s, it had generated more electricity from nuclear power than the rest of the world combined.

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

Fossil-fuel power plants account for the majority of worldwide power generation.

Fossil-fuel power plants account for the majority of worldwide power generation.

We need energy to warm and light our homes, to power our transport and communications, and to support our manufacturing industries.

How to achieve unlimited, safe, clean and low-cost energy by laser- or beam-driven inertial nuclear fusion has preoccupied all winners of the Edward Teller Medal since its inception in 1991.

Safe and Secure Transport and Storage of Radioactive Materials reviews best practice and emerging techniques in this area.

Reprocessing and Recycling of Spent Nuclear Fuel presents an authoritative overview of spent fuel reprocessing, considering future prospects for advanced closed fuel cycles.

Membrane Reactors for Energy Applications and Basic Chemical Production presents a discussion of the increasing interest in membrane reactors that has emerged in recent years from both the scientific and industrial communities, in particular their usage for energy applications and basic chemical production.

In this volume, recent research on nuclear power plants is presented across four chapters.

The book has two themes based on my direct participation as Chairman of the Design Authority in Iraq's Atomic Organization (1987-1992).