How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor

• Main Author: Tucker, Colin (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: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Popular Science,
• Subjects: Physics.; Nuclear energy.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Power electronics.; Energy.; Popular Science in Physics.; Nuclear Energy.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.; Popular Science in Energy.

Have you ever wondered how a nuclear power station works? This book will answer that question. It'll take you on a journey from the science behind nuclear reactors, through their start-up, operation and shutdown. Along the way it covers a bit of the engineering, reactor history, different kinds...

Table of Contents:

• One Man and His Dog
• Physics is Phun
• Being Friendly to Neutrons
• Criticality is Not as Bad as it Sounds
• What Makes Nuclear Special?
• The Thing you put your Reactor in....
• Pull the Rods Out and Stand Back
• Watt Power?
• Your Reactor is Stable (Part One)
• You've got to do Something with all that Steam...
• The Big Red Button
• Your Reactor is Stable (Part Two)
• Putting a Spin on it
• Going Up!
• Power, and How to Change it
• Steady Power with Nothin to do?
• It's All About Safety
• What Can Go Wrong (and what you can do about it...)
• Smaller isn't Always Easier
• What Else Can Go Wrong?
• When you run out of Oomph
• Other Reactor Designs are Available
• How to Build your own Reactor
• And there's more...
• Conclusion.