Sustainable and Safe Nuclear Fission Energy Technology and Safety of Fast and Thermal Nuclear Reactors /

• Main Author: Kessler, Günter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Power Systems,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Chemical engineering.; Nuclear physics.; Nuclear engineering.; Radiation protection.; Radiation > Safety measures.; Waste management.; Pollution prevention.; Nuclear Engineering.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Waste Management/Waste Technology.; Industrial Pollution Prevention.; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection.; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.

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 co...

Table of Contents:

• 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.