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Nuclear Engineering Handbook (2009)

AuthorKenneth D. Kok
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Date2009
Classification 6.01.0.00/291 (GENERAL)
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Nuclear Engineering Handbook
Edited by Kenneth D. Kok
2009

Contents
Preface .................................................................ix
Acknowledgments ....................................................... xiii
Editor...................................................................xv
Contributors .......................................................... xvii
I Introduction to Section 1: Nuclear Power Reactor Section s
1. Historical Development of Nuclear Power ................................3
Kenneth D. Kok
. Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs) .......................................9
Richard Schreiber
3. Boiler Water Reactors (BWRs) ...........................................83
Kevin Theriault
4. Heavy Water Reactors ................................................. 141
Alistair I. Miller, John Luxat, Edward G. Price, Romney B. Duffey, and
Paul J. Fehrenbach
5. High-Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors ................................. 197
Arkal Shenoy and Chris Ellis
6. Generation IV Technologies .......................................... ..227
Edwin A. Harvego and Richard R. Schultz
Section II Introduction to Section 2: Nuclear Fuel Cycle
7. Nuclear Fuel Resources ................................................ 245
Stephen W. Kidd
8. Uranium Enrichment .....................................................265
Nathan H. (Nate) Hurt and William J. Wilcox, Jr.
9. Nuclear Fuel Fabrication .............................................. 279
Kenneth D. Kok
10. Spent Fuel Storage ................................................... 293
Kristopher W. Cummings
11. Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing ............................................ 315
Patricia Paviet-Hartmann, Bob Benedict, and Michael J. Lineberry
viii Contents
12. Waste Disposal: Transuranic Waste, High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear
Fuel, and Low-Level Radioactive Waste .................................... 367
Murthy Devarakonda and Robert D. Baird
13. Radioactive Materials Transportation ..................................403
Kurt Colborn
14. Decontamination and Decommissioning: “The Act of D&D”—
“The Art of Balance” ..................................................... 431
Cidney Voth
15. HWR Fuel Cycles ...................................................... 475
Paul J. Fehrenbach and Alistair I. Miller
Section III Introduction to Section 3: Related Engineering and
Analytical Processes
16. Risk Assessment and Safety Analysis for Commercial Nuclear Reactors .. 525
Yehia F. Khalil
17. Nuclear Safety of Government Owned, Contractor Operated
Nuclear (GOCO) Facilities ..................................................543
Arlen R. Schade
18. Neutronics ............................................................ 575
Ronald E. Pevey
9. Radiation Protection ....................................................609
Matthew Arno
20. Heat Transfer and Thermal Hydraulic Analysis .......................... 641
Shripad T. Revankar
21. Thermodynamics/Power Cycles ........................................... 713
Yasuo Koizumi
22. Economics of Nuclear Power ............................................ 727
Jay F. Kunze
Index ..................................................................... 751

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