Description
Nuclear Power
Today and Tomorrow
Routledge Library Editions: Energy Resources Series
Author: Jay Kenneth
Language: EnglishSubjects for Nuclear Power:
Keywords
United States Atomic Energy Commission; Neutron Generation Time; Energy economics; Heat Rating; energy crisis; Heavy Water Moderator; energy geography; Fuel Elements; energy international; Molten Salt Reactors; energy policy; Gas Cooled Reactor; energy politics; Pressurized Water Reactor; energy resources; Fissile Atoms; energy strategies; Uranium Dioxide; energy supply; Boiling Water Reactors; energy technology; Neutron Yield; environment energy; Neutron Absorption Cross-section; nuclear industry; Fission Products; nuclear policy; Heavy Water; nuclear politics; Electrical Energy; nuclear power; Control Rods; nuclear technology; Primary Cooling Circuits; politics of energy; Natural Uranium; power industries; Neutron Energy; resouces energy; Breeder Reactor; resources power; Calder Hall; Liquid Metal Coolant; Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor; Nuclear Propulsion
Publication date: 01-2021
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 04-2019
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Hardback
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Originally published in 1961. This book gives the layman a better understanding of the nature of nuclear power and explains some of the major problems which have to be overcome in making practical use of it. It is concerned mainly with the different kinds of nuclear reactors - their underlying principles are explained and illustrated by reference to particular plants or design studies. Interested readers will find that the discussion of principles is full enough, and the range covered wide enough, to provide a broad view of the subject and a useful introduction to some more technical literature.
1. Energy, Atoms, and Neutrons 2. Nuclear Fuels and Fuel Cycles 3. Some Different Kinds of Reactors 4. The Cost of Nuclear Power 5. Some National Nuclear Power Programmes 6. Gas-Cooled Graphite-Moderated Reactors 7. Hydrogen-Moderated Systems 8. Fast Reactors 9. The Sodium-Graphite Reactor System 10. Liquid-Fuelled Reactors 11. Other Civil Applications of Nuclear Energy 12. Reactor Development: Some Technical, and Social, Knowns and Unknowns. Appendices: I. Selected Reading List II. Glossary of Technical Terms, Some Common Abbreviations III. Leading Characteristics of British Power Reactors