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Chemical processing in the atomic energy industry (1964)
| Author | A.R.Cooper |
| Date | 1964 |
| Classification | 6.01.2.10/37 (TECHNICAL - GENERAL INFORMATION) |
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About this book THE NUCLEAR REACTOR TECHNOLOGY series has been designed to provide a comprehensive survey of all the main subjects embraced by an increasingly important branch of engineering. Each book is complete in itself, but the series as a whole will serve as a set of textbooks for general courses in nuclear engineering held at Colleges of Advanced Technology and for the first part of the Harwell Reactor School Standard Course. The volumes in this series will, in addition, prove invaluable to professional engineers and others whose work brings them in active contact with nuclear engineering in any of its many aspects. This book deals with the specialised materials used in the nuclear reactor, and with the processes employed to extract and purify them in order to meet the exacting specifications of the atomic energy industry. The use of nuclear fuels for power generation has entailed the development of an extensive supporting chemical industry. In some cases the development has involved modification by extension or improvement of an existing process, while in other cases entirely new processes have been devised. The extraction of a given metal may be achieved by several routes, some of which may be more elegant or economic than others. Hence the present account includes not only those processes which are of current commercial importance, but also those which were once of importance or which may have future application. After discussing processing techniques the author devotes a chapter to describing the extraction and properties of each of the following materials: uranium, plutonium, thorium, zirconium, beryllium, mobium and graphite. Finally, fuel reprocessing and isotope separation are considered. Since the book is of restricted length and aims at introducing the chemical aspects of the atomic energy industry, certain details such as materials of construction and mass flows and concentrations are given in only a few instances; likewise the number of stoichiometric chemical equations has been limited. As the work is intended both for those with some chemical knowledge and also for those whose knowledge is more extensive, a glossary of technical terms is included. Throughout, the book is well illustrated with line diagrams to support the text, and has, like every other in the series, been edited by J. F. Hill, Head of the Post-Graduate Education Centre, A.E.R.E., Harwell.
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