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Nuclear Energy: An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes
by Raymond L. Murray.
Book Description
- Latest edition with updated content in important subject areas
- Free downloadable software accompanies book contents
- Revised instructor's manual to accompany book
New and important trends are discussed including probabilistic safety
analysis (PSA), deregulation of the electric power industry to permit
competition in the supply of electricity; improvements in performance
characteristics of nuclear power plants, such as capacity factor, production
costs, and safety factors; storage and disposal of all types of radioactive
wastes; advances in decontamination, decommissioning and reutilization;
continued progress in evolutionary reactors; increased interest in the role of
nuclear power in reducing pollution and global warming. Attention will also be
given to the developments in such countries as Russia, Ukraine, France, Sweden,
South Korea, China and Third World Countries. The author also looks at the
problems of nuclear weapons proliferation and the potential threat from
terrorist organizations or reckless countries. In addition, the author has
identified Web sites and other electronic information sources to supplement all
of the topics covered in this book.
The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, Part A : The Scientific Papers : Nuclear Energy
by Eugene Paul Wigner, Alvin M. Weinberg (Editor).
Book Description
Eugene Wigner is one of the very few scientists that may safely be described as creators of 20th-century physics. This volume of his Collected Works is devoted to his contributions to nuclear energy. In his Introduction and Annotations A.M. Weinberg surveys Wigner's contributions to nuclear-reaction physics and nuclear engineering, at the same time giving a glimpse of the early history of nuclear-reactor technology. Wigner himself gave a lively and critical account, which is published in this volume for the first time. Furthermore the book contains forty-two reports and memoranda from 1941 to 1945 and twelve of Wigner's many patents relating to nuclear energy.
Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy
by Per F. Dahl.
Book Description
Heavy water (deuterium oxide) played a sinister role in the race for nuclear
energy during the Second World War. It was a key factor in Germany's bid to
harness atomic energy primarily as a source of electric power; its acute
shortage was a factor in Japan's decision not to pursue seriously nuclear
weaponry; its very existence was a nagging thorn in the side of the Allied
powers. Books and films have dwelt on the Allies' efforts to deny the Germans
heavy water by military means; however a history of heavy water in itself has
not been written.
This book fills that gap. It concentrates on the circumstances whereby Norway
became the pre-eminent producer of heavy water, and on the scientific role the
rare isotope of hydrogren played in the wartime efforts by the Axis and Allied
powers alike. Instead of a purely technical treatise on heavy water, the book
may better be described as a social history of the subject.
The book covers the discovery and early uses of deuterium before World War
Two; its large-scale production by Norsk Hydro in Norway, especially under
German control; the French-German race for the Norwegian heavy-water stocks in
1940; its importance for the subsequent German uranium project, including Allied
sabotage and bombing of the Norwegian plants; likewise its lesser role in Allied
projects, especially, the United States and Canada. The book concludes with an
overall assessment of the importance, or perceived importance of heavy water for
the German program, which alone staked everything on heavy water in its quest
for a nuclear chain reaction.
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy
by Isaac Asimov, Adam Starchild (Introduction).
Book Description
The Story of Nuclear Energy: Worlds Within Worlds covers the entire story of
nuclear energy from a basic explanation of atomic weights, energy and
electricity to nuclear fission, fusion - beyond. First coming to public
consciousness as The Bomb that ended World War II, it is now the forefront of
our attention as a source of peacetime energy, whether from nuclear power plants
or from the sun.
In the last 20 years, Isaac Asimov has written more than 150 books, including
science fiction and many technical guides to scientific subjects. His prodigious
output has made him one of America's favorite interpreters of the roles of
science and technology in shaping man's destiny.
Bluebells and Nuclear Energy
by Albert B. Reynolds.
Up-to-date information about nuclear energy in modern society.
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