Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering

BRENT J. LEWIS, Royal Military College of Canada E. NIHAN ONDER, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories ANDREW A. PRUDIL, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories

• 1 Atomic and Nuclear Theory 91.1 Historical Review 91.2 Models of the Nucleus 102 Nuclear Reactor Design and Physics 532.1 Overall Concept and Description of Nuclear Reactors 532.2 Neutron Diffusion 712.3 Slowing Down of Neutrons 752.4 Criticality and the Steady State 862.5 Advanced Reactor Physics 963 Nuclear Reactor Dynamics and Control 1203.1 Overview of Reactor Kinetics Behaviour 1203.2 Point Reactor Model and the Inhour Equation 1253.3 Reactor Control 1383.4 Nuclear Fuel Management 1464 Nuclear Reactor Materials and Fuel Engineering 1744.1 Nuclear Reactor Materials 1744.2 Fuel Production 2024.3 Fuel Element Thermal Performance 2184.4 Fuel Chemistry 2404.5 Fuel Restructuring 2484.6 Fission Product Behaviour 2524.7 Fuel Performance 2855 Thermal Hydraulics 3145.1 Choice of Coolant 3145.2 Definitions and Simple Two-Phase Flow Relationships 3155.3 Two-Phase Flow 3185.4 Pressure Drop 3435.5 Heat Transfer 3806 Nuclear Reactor Safety 5736.1 Reactor Licensing and Regulation 5736.2 General Principles of Reactor Safety 5866.3 Engineered Safety Features 5906.4 Reactor Safety Analysis 5976.5 Reliability and Risk Assessment 6196.6 Nuclear Reactor Accidents 6246.7 Radiation Dose Calculations 6406.8 Nuclear Emergency Response 6596.9 Fission Product Release and Severe Core Damage Phenomena 6697 Health Physics and Radiation Protection 7117.1 Interaction of Radiation with Matter 7117.2 Health Physics and Radiation Protection 7307.3 Biological Effects of Radiation 7637.4 Radiation Protection 7797.5 Contamination Treatment 7887.6 Space Radiation 788Appendix 1 Physical Constants and Conversion Factors 811Appendix 2 Table of Atomic Mass Excesses 813Appendix 3 Some Values of Nuclear Spins and Parities 900Appendix 4 Reactor Physics Parameters 903Appendix 5 Physical and Biological Data for Radionuclides 905Appendix 6 Cross-Sections of Some Radionuclides 907Appendix 7 Properties of Elements and Some Molecules 909Appendix 8 Isotopic Cross-Sections 913Appendix 9 Direct and Cumulative Thermal Fission Product Yields for Various Fissile Isotopes 926Index 943