Dr. Samuel Glasstone, the senior author of the previous editions of this book, was anxious to live until his ninetieth birthday, but passed away in 1986, a few months short of this milestone.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-10-08
Mått155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor381
Upplaga4
FörlagSpringer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN9781461358664

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8 The Systems Concept, Design Decisions, and Information Tools.- Systems.- The Computer as a Decision Tool.- Information as a Decision Tool.- 9 Energy Transport.- Heat Sources in Reactor Systems.- Heat-Transmission Principles.- Heat Transfer to Ordinary Fluids.- Heat Transfer to Liquid Metals.- Boiling Heat Transfer.- Core Fluid Flow.- Subchannel Analysis and System Codes.- Core Design Constraints.- 10 Reactor Fuel Management and Energy Cost Considerations.- Pre-Reactor Fuel Operations.- In-Core Management.- Pressurized Water Reactor Core Management.- Boiling Water Reactor Core Management.- Nuclear Fuel Utilization.- Nuclear Energy Costs.- Nuclear Material Safeguards.- Nuclear Criticality Safety.- 11 Environmental Effects of Nuclear Power and Waste Management.- Radiation Exposure Pathways.- The Spent-Fuel Management Challenge.- On-Site Spent-Fuel Storage.- Characteristics of Spent Fuel.- Storage and Disposal Options.- Migration of Waste Radionuclides.- The Reprocessing Option.- Reactor Radwaste Management.- Waste Heat Management.- 12 Nuclear Reactor Safety and Regulation.- Accident Prevention.- Engineered Safety Features.- Abnormal Event Analysis.- Severe Accidents.- The Source Term.- Safety Modeling Methods.- Siting Requirements.- Accident Experience and Analysis.- Severe Accident Management.- Reliability and Risk Assessment.- Licensing and Regulation of Nuclear Plants.- Nuclear Reactor Safeguards.- 13 Power Reactor Systems.- Present Pressurized-Water Reactors.- Evolutionary Pressurized-Water Reactors.- Present Boiling-Water Reactors.- Evolutionary Boiling-Water Reactors.- Heavy-Water-Moderated Reactors.- 14 Plant Operations.- Plant Operational Strategy.- Plant Control.- Expert Systems and Neural Networks in Plant Operations.- Plant Maintenance.- Regulatory Aspects ofOperations.- Reactor Decommissioning.- 15 Advanced Plants and the Future.- The AP600.- Simplified Boiling-Water Reactor.- Modular HTGR.- Advanced Liquid-Metal-Cooled Reactor.- Commercialization Issues.- The Future.