J. Brian Knowles

Nuclear Electric Power

Safety, Operation, and Control Aspects

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Assesses the engineering of renewable sources for commercial power generation and discusses the safety, operation, and control aspects of nuclear electric power

From an expert who advised the European Commission and UK government in the aftermath of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl comes a book that contains experienced engineering assessments of the options for replacing the existing, aged, fossil-fired power stations with renewable, gas-fired, or nuclear plants.

From geothermal, solar, and wind to tidal and hydro generation, Nuclear Electric Power: Safety, Operation, and Control Aspects assesses the engineering of renewable sources for commercial power generation and discusses the important aspects of the design, operation, and safety of nuclear stations.

Nuclear Electric Power offers:
Novel, practical engineering assessments for geothermal, hydro, solar, tidal, and wind generation in terms of the available data on cost, safety, environmental damage, capacity factor reliability, and grid compatibility, with some nuclear comparisons
Eigenvalues and real frequency response functions to assess the stabilities of reactor power, two-phase channel flow, and a Grid network
A non-linear control strategy with simulation results for a Design Base Accident scenario
Original analyses with experimental validation of molten fuel coolant interactions and aircraft impacts on rigid structures
Analysis of the circumstances that led to the Fukushima disaster

Nuclear Electric Power is an important book for all international nuclear power agencies and those who work within the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1W118551700
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 11249g
• ISBN-13: 9781118551707
• ISBN-10: 1118551702
• Artikelnr.: 38138978

Autorenporträt

J. Brian Knowles, PhD, DSc, now retired, remains professionally active with CEN Grenoble and KfK, where he compiled the results of European-wide MFCI experiments. In 1993, he visited the Russian Federation to discuss fast reactor collaboration as part of the European Commission's Whole Core Accident Committee and was later a member of the OECD-CSNI working group on water reactor accident management. Dr. Knowles was also a UKAEA Section Head of Thermal Dynamics at Winfrith, where he was responsible for a comprehensive modular simulation of intact plant dynamics used in AGR and proposed fast reactor designs.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix Glossary xiii Principal Nomenclature xv 1. Energy Sources, Grid
Compatibility, Economics, and the Environment 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2
Geothermal Energy 3 1.3 Hydroelectricity 5 1.4 Solar Energy 7 1.5 Tidal
Energy 8 1.6 Wind Energy 13 1.7 Fossil-Fired Power Generation 17 1.8
Nuclear Generation and Reactor Choice 20 1.9 A Prologue 30 2. Adequacy of
Linear Models and Nuclear Reactor Dynamics 34 2.1 Linear Models, Stability,
and Nyquist Theorems 34 2.2 Mathematical Descriptions of a Neutron
Population 44 2.3 A Point Model of Reactor Kinetics 45 2.4 Temperature and
Other Operational Feedback Effects 49 2.5 Reactor Control, its Stable
Period and Re-equilibrium 51 3. Some Power Station and Grid Control
Problems 56 3.1 Steam Drum Water-Level Control 56 3.2 Flow Stability in
Parallel Boiling Channels 59 3.3 Grid Power Systems and Frequency Control
63 3.4 Grid Disconnection for a Nuclear Station with Functioning "Scram" 71
4. Some Aspects of Nuclear Accidents and Their Mitigation 79 4.1 Reactor
Accident Classification by Probabilities 79 4.2 Hazards from an Atmospheric
Release of Fission Products 82 4.3 Mathematical Risk, Event Trees, and
Human Attitudes 84 4.4 The Farmer-Beattie Siting Criterion 87 4.5 Examples
of Potential Severe Accidents in Fast Reactors and PWRs with their
Consequences 93 5. Molten Fuel Coolant Interactions: Analyses and
Experiments 101 5.1 A History and a Mixing Analysis 101 5.2 Coarse Mixtures
and Contact Modes in Severe Nuclear Accidents 105 5.3 Some Physics of a
Vapor Film and its Interface 110 5.4 Heat Transfer from Contiguous Melt 115
5.5 Mass Transfer at a Liquid-Vapor Interface and the Condensation
Coefficient 121 5.6 Kinetics, Heat Diffusion, a Triggering Simulation, and
Reactor Safety 124 5.7 Melt Fragmentation, Heat Transfer, Debris Sizes, and
MFCI Yield 131 5.8 Features of the Bubex Code and an MFTF Simulation 140 6.
Primary Containment Integrity and Impact Studies 148 6.1 Primary
Containment Integrity 148 6.2 The Pi-Theorem, Scale Models, and Replicas
155 6.3 Experimental Impact Facilities 160 6.4 Computational Techniques and
an Aircraft Impact 165 7. Natural Circulation, Passive Safety Systems, and
Debris-Bed Cooling 173 7.1 Natural Convection in Nuclear Plants 173 7.2
Passive Safety Systems for Water Reactors 179 7.3 Core Debris-Bed Cooling
in Water Reactors 181 7.4 An Epilogue 186 References 192 Index 207