Nuclear Reactor Physics and Engineering
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Nuclear Reactor Physics and Engineering

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Nuclear Reactor Physics and Engineering

About this book

Essential guide to analyzing nuclear energy systems, with focus on reactor physics, fuel cycle, system dynamics, thermal-hydraulics, and economics.

Nuclear Reactor Physics and Engineering highlights efforts in utilizing low enrichment uranium fuel as a substitute for carbon-based fuels in energy generation and provides an overview of important aspects of nuclear reactor physics utilizing the neutron diffusion equation for major reactor designs and MATLAB software for system analysis, with exercises illustrating key points and design parameters as supplementary material.

This revised and updated Second Edition reflects key findings of the 2023 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report and discusses physical and engineering characteristics of advanced nuclear reactors, especially in the form of small modular reactors that have the potential to provide enhanced safety and economics, as well as effective long-term management of used nuclear fuel in geological repositories.

Key topics explored in the updated edition of Nuclear Reactor Physics and Engineering include:

  • Impact of the use of high-assay low enrichment uranium (HALEU) fuel as a new efficient nuclear fuel
  • Advantages resulting from combined uses of light water reactor and sodium-cooled fast reactor with fuel reprocessing
  • Fundamental nuclear reactor physics, nuclear reactor system analysis, and lattice physics analysis for reactor cores
  • Nuclear fuel cycle analysis, nuclear plant simulation and control, and management of used nuclear fuel
  • Economic analysis of nuclear electricity and thermal-hydraulic analysis of nuclear systems.

With a wealth of all-new information detailing the state of the art in the field, Nuclear Reactor Physics and Engineering is an invaluable reference on the subject for undergraduate and graduate students in nuclear engineering, as well as practicing engineers involved with nuclear power plants.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781394283552
eBook ISBN
9781394283576
Edition
2
Topic
Technology & Engineering
Subtopic
Nuclear Physics
Index
Technology & Engineering

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Tables
  6. List of Figures
  7. Preface
  8. Preface to the Second Edition
  9. Permissions and Copyrights
  10. About the Companion Website
  11. Chapter 1 Nuclear Power Plants
  12. Chapter 2 Neutron–Nucleus Reaction and Neutron Cross Section
  13. Chapter 3 Neutron Flux, Reaction Rate, and Effective Cross Section
  14. Chapter 4 Derivation of the Neutron Diffusion Equation
  15. Chapter 5 Applications of the One‐Group Neutron Diffusion Equation
  16. Chapter 6 Numerical Solution of the Neutron Diffusion Equation
  17. Chapter 7 Applications of the Two‐Group Neutron Diffusion Equation
  18. Chapter 8 Nuclear Reactor Kinetics
  19. Chapter 9 Fast Neutron Spectrum Calculation
  20. Chapter 10 Perturbation Theory and Adjoint Flux
  21. Chapter 11 Lattice Physics Analysis of Heterogeneous Cores
  22. Chapter 12 Nuclear Fuel Cycle Analysis and Management
  23. Chapter 13 Thermal‐Hydraulic Analysis of Reactor Systems
  24. Chapter 14 Power Coefficients of Reactivity
  25. Chapter 15 Nuclear Energy Economics
  26. Chapter 16 Space‐Time Kinetics and Reactor Control
  27. Chapter 17 Elements of Neutron Transport Theory
  28. Appendix A Key Physical Constants
  29. Appendix B Comparison of Major Reactor Types
  30. Appendix C Special Mathematical Functions
  31. Appendix D Integral Transforms
  32. Appendix E Calculus of Variation for Optimal Control Formulation
  33. Appendix F Kalman Filter Algorithm
  34. Answers to Selected Problems
  35. Index
  36. EULA