Sustainable and Safe Nuclear Fission Energy (eBook)

Technology and Safety of Fast and Thermal Nuclear Reactors

Günter Kessler (Autor)

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2012 | 2012
XXVI, 466 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-11990-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Unlike existing books of nuclear reactor physics, nuclear engineering and nuclear chemical engineering this book covers a complete description and evaluation of nuclear fission power generation. It covers the whole nuclear fuel cycle, from the extraction of natural uranium from ore mines, uranium conversion and enrichment up to the fabrication of fuel elements for the cores of various types of fission reactors. This is followed by the description of the different fuel cycle options and the final storage in nuclear waste repositories. In addition the release of radioactivity under normal and possible accidental conditions is given for all parts of the nuclear fuel cycle and especially for the different fission reactor types.

Inhalt

Nuclear reactors operating in the world by 2010.- Reactor physics needed for understanding of fission reactors.- Nuclear fuel supply.- Uranium enrichment.- Fission reactors with thermal neutron spectrum.- Breeder reactors with fast neutron spectrum.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Power Systems
• Zusatzinfo: XXVI, 466 p.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Schlagworte: Enrichment fuel element fabrication • Fission reactor technology • Fuel cycle options • Industrial Pollution Prevention • Nuclear fission power generation • Nuclear fuel cycle • Nuclear waste repositories • Reactor Safety • Uranium enrichement • Uranium ore conversion
• ISBN-10: 3-642-11990-5 / 3642119905
• ISBN-13: 978-3-642-11990-3 / 9783642119903