Kenneth Jay

Nuclear Power

Today and Tomorrow

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1961. This book explains the nature of nuclear power and 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 -underlying principles are explained and illustrated by reference to particular plants or design studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780367231026
• ISBN-10: 0367231026
• Artikelnr.: 69935511

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Jay

Inhaltsangabe

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