Neutronic Analysis For Nuclear Reactor Systems

• Main Author: Zohuri, Bahman (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Nuclear energy.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Nuclear Energy.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.

This expanded new edition develops the theory of nuclear reactors from the fundamentals of fission to the operating characteristics of modern reactors. The first half of the book emphasizes reactor criticality analysis and all of the fundamentals that go into modern calculations. Simplified one grou...

Table of Contents:

• Neutron Physics Background
• Modeling Neutron Transport and Interactions
• Spatial Effects in Modeling Neutron Diffusion
• Energy effects in modeling neutron diffusion
• Numerical methods in modeling neutron diffusion
• Slowing down theory
• Resonance Processing
• Heterogeneous Reactors and Wigner Seitz Cells
• Thermal Spectra and Thermal cross sections
• Perturbation Theory for reactor neutronics
• Reactor Kinetics
• Reactor Dynamics
• Reactor Stability
• Numerical Modeling for Time Dependent Problems
• Fission product buildup and decay
• Fuel burn-up and fuel management
• Why nuclear power energy
• Small Modular Reactors and their innovative designs
• Design and analysis of a nuclear reactor core for small modular reactors.