Nuclear power and engineering

The nuclear safety expert shares a gripping, blow-by-blow account of how he led the response to the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

In the wake of California's energy crisis, policymakers' rush to satisfy growing demand requirements may run the risk of naively ignoring the larger issues and dangers associated with increased reliance on nuclear power.

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

Historical facts will give you either joy or sadness.

Working with atoms requires years of education and experiments.

The next pages will discuss rocket science.

Although fission and fusion are both nuclear reactions, they are miles apart in terms of definitions.

This book is a collection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference of Military Geoscience that was held in 2011.

The revised second edition of this established text offers readers a significantly expanded introduction to the effects of radiation on metals and alloys.

This book is devoted to the mathematical optimization theory and modeling techniques that recently have been applied to the problem of controlling the shape and intensity of the power density distribution in the core of large nuclear reactors.

Developed from the Global Foundation's International Conference on Environment and Nuclear Energy, held in October 1997, this volume examines the impact of nuclear energy on regional and global environmental issues under a variety of scenarios.

Radioactive wastes resulting from over 40 years of production of nuclear weapons in the U.

This expanded, revised, and updated fourth edition of Nuclear Energy maintains the tradition of providing clear and comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the subject, with emphasis on the explanation of trends and developments.

This book describes the principles and practices of reactor safety as applied to the design, regulation and operation of light water reactors, combining a historical approach with an up-to-date account of the safety, technology and operating experience of both pressurized water reactors and boiling water reactors.

Transitional Energy Policy 1980-2030: Alternative Nuclear Technologies discusses topics the tackle concerns regarding the use of nuclear technology as an energy source.

Transparency and Public Participation for Radioactive Waste Management in Europe investigates how the pillars of the Aarhus Convention, and a broader understanding of transparency by Civil Society (CS), can be transposed into Radioactive Waste Management (RWM), particularly in the establishment of Radioactive Waste (RW) facilities in different national contexts.

In Radiant Infrastructures Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India-what he calls radiant infrastructures-creates environmental publics: groups of activists, scientists, and policy makers who use media to influence public opinion.

The 12th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics carried on the tradition, started in 1978, of bringing together scientists working in all regimes of nuclear dynamics.

Proceedings of the 14th Winter Workshop held in Snowbird, Utah, January 31-February 7, 1998

With the appearance of Volume 3 of our series the review articles them- selves can speak for the nature of the series.

The vast eruption of books about energy that has appeared in the past decade has yielded few that could properly be called learning or.

The present volume reaffirms nuclear physics as an experimental science since the authors are primarily experimentalists and since the treatment of the topics might be said to be "e;experimental.

Is it possible to build a star on earth?

Phase Change Heat Transfer covers theory and experiments in heat transfer associated with boiling and condensation.

** Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham is out now **THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Superb, enthralling and necessarily terrifying .

In recent years the effort devoted to assuring both the safety and reliability of commercial nuclear fission power reactors has markedly increased.

Our volume in the annual review series on this occasion represents a departure from our usual practice in that it serves as a Festschrift for Eugene Wigner.

Over the last 30 years, reactor safety technology has evolved not so much from a need to recover from accidents or incidents, but primarily from many groups in the nuclear community asking hypo- thetical, searching (what if) ~uestions.

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This is the official record of the International Symposium on "e;The Role of Nuclear Engineering for an Uncertain Future"e; which was held on No- vember 5 and 6, 1980, at Keidanren Hall in Tokyo, in connection with the 20th Anniversary of the Nuclear Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo.

This vOlume contains the invited and contributed papers pre- sented at the American Nuclear Society (ANS) meeting on Decontamina- tion and Decommissioning (D & D) of Nuclear Facilities, held Septem- ber 16-20, 1979, in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Most of this book was written before October 1973.

This book is intended as an introductory exposition of those nuclear energy systems concepts which are characterized by an integrated utiliz- ation of complementary nuclear processes.

This book of proceedings collects the papers presented at the workshop on "e;Diagnostics for Experimental Fusion Reactors"e; held at Villa Monastero, Varenna (Italy) September 4-12, 1997.

th This workshop was the 15 in a series that addresses the subject of the dynamics of nuclear reactions.

This conference proceedings explores issues surrounding the replacement of existing nuclear power plants when they reach the end of their useful life.

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.

The 9th International Workshop on "e;Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena"e; was held November 6-10, 1989, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Cal ifornia.

The Editors have pleasure in presenting a further volume in the se- ries to our international audience.

The Tenth International Workshop on "e;Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena"e; was held November 11-15, 1991, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.

Chemical pretreatment of nuclear wastes refers to the sequence of separations processes used to partition such wastes into a small volume of high-level waste for deep geologic disposal and a larger volume of low-level waste for disposal in a near-surface facility.

The first part of the conference explores two major environmental concerns that arise from fuel use: (1) the prospect that the globe will become warmer as a result of emissions of carbon dioxide, and (2) the effect upon health of the fine particles emitted as combustion products.

This book provides readers with an introductory understanding of Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC), a type of fusion meant to retain plasma using an electrostatic field.

This book provides the reader with essential tools needed to analyze complex societal issues and demonstrates the transition from physics to modern-day laws and treaties.

Uranium Processing and Properties describes developments in uranium science, engineering and processing and covers a broad spectrum of topics and applications in which these technologies are harnessed.

Natural Convection in Composite Fluid-Porous Domains provides a timely overview of the current state of understanding on the phenomenon of convection in composite fluid-porous layers.

Nuclear Energy provides an authoritative reference on all aspects of the nuclear industry from fundamental reactor physics calculations to reactor design, nuclear fuel resources, nuclear fuel cycle, radiation detection and protection, and nuclear power economics.