Nuclear Principles in Engineering

• Main Author: Jevremovic, Tatjana (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Edition: 2.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Nuclear energy.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Hadrons.; Electric power production.; Mechanical engineering.; Power electronics.; Nuclear engineering.; Energy Technology.; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.; Nuclear Engineering.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; Mechanical Engineering.; Nuclear Energy.

Nuclear engineering plays an important role in various industrial, health care, and energy processes. Modern physics has generated its fundamental principles. A growing number of students and practicing engineers need updated material to access the technical language and content of nuclear principle...

Table of Contents:

• Nuclear Concepts
• Atomic Theory
• Nuclear Theory
• Duality of Nature
• Radioactive Decay
• Interactions of Radiation with Matter
• Neutron Physics
• Neutron Transport
• Nuclear Reactor Control.