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“alan e waltar”

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  • Fast Spectrum Reactors

    Edited by Donald R. Todd, Alan E. Waltar, Pavel V. Tsvetkov ...
    This book is a complete update of the classic 1981 FAST BREEDER REACTORS textbook authored by Alan E. Waltar and Albert B. Reynolds, which , along with the Russian translation, served as a major reference book for fast reactors systems. Major updates include transmutation physics (a key technology to substantially ameliorate issues associated with the storage of high-level nuclear waste ), ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

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  • The Physics of the Manhattan Project

    by Bruce Cameron Reed ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant scientific events of the twentieth century. This revised and updated 3rd edition explores the challenges that faced the scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project. It gives a clear introduction to fission weapons at the level of an upper-year undergraduate physics student by examining the details ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Supercritical-Pressure Light Water Cooled Reactors

    Edited by Yoshiaki Oka, Hideo Mori ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book focuses on the latest reactor concepts, single pass core and experimental findings in thermal hydraulics, materials, corrosion, and water chemistry. It highlights research on supercritical-pressure light water cooled reactors (SCWRs), one of the Generation IV reactors that are studied around the world. This book includes cladding material development and experimental findings on heat ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Super Light Water Reactors and Super Fast Reactors

    Supercritical-Pressure Light Water Cooled Reactors

    by Yoshiaki Oka, Seiichi Koshizuka, Yuki Ishiwatari, Akifumi Yamaji ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Super Light Water Reactors and Super Fast Reactors provides an overview of the design and analysis of nuclear power reactors. Readers will gain the understanding of the conceptual design elements and specific analysis methods of supercritical-pressure light water cooled reactors. Nuclear fuel, reactor core, plant control, plant stand-up and stability are among the topics discussed, in addition to ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Nuclear Physics: Present and Future

    Edited by Walter Greiner ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    State-of-the-art survey by leading experts in the field. Major foci are superheavy nuclei and neutron-rich exotic nuclei. In addition new developments in nuclear fission and nuclear cluster decay are shown. Finally developments in relativistic heavy ion collisions and the physics of supercritical fields are detailed. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Handbook of Radioactivity Analysis

    by Michael F. L'Annunziata ...
    Handbook of Radioactivity Analysis describes the preparation of samples from a wide variety of matrices, assists the investigator or technician in the selection and use of appropriate radiation detector, and presents the latest state-of-the-art computerized and automated methods of analysis. The new Handbook of Radioactivity Analysis is suitable as a teaching text for university and professional ... Read more

    $269.99 USD

  • Handbook of Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis

    with Neutron Beams

    Edited by G. Molnar ...
    Prompt gamma activation analysis (PGAA) is a unique, non-destructive nuclear analytical method with multi-element capabilities. It is most effective if intense neutron beams (especially cold beams) of nuclear reactors are used to induce the prompt gamma radiation. Based largely on the authors' pioneering research in cold neutron PGAA, the handbook describes the methodology in self-contained manner ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Nuclear Principles in Engineering

    by Tatjana Jevremovic ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Nuclear engineering plays an important role in various industrial, health care, and energy processes. Modern physics has generated its fundamental principles. A growing number of students and practicing engineers need updated material to access the technical language and content of nuclear principles."Nuclear Principles in Engineering, Second Edition" is written for students, engineers, physicians ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Chemistry of Superheavy Elements

    Edited by Matthias Schädel, Dawn Shaughnessy ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    The second edition of "The Chemistry of the Superheavy Elements" provides a complete coverage of the chemistry of a series of elements beginning with atomic number 104 – the transactinides or superheavy elements – including their nuclear properties and production in nuclear reactions at heavy-ion accelerators. The contributors to this work include many renowned scientists who, during the last ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Thorium Energy for the World

    Proceedings of the ThEC13 Conference, CERN, Globe of Science and Innovation, Geneva, Switzerland, October 27-31, 2013

    Edited by Jean-Christophe de Mestral, Yacine Kadi, Jean-Pierre Revol, Maurice Bourquin, Karel Samec, Egil Lillestol ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The Thorium Energy Conference (ThEC13) gathered some of the world’s leading experts on thorium technologies to review the possibility of destroying nuclear waste in the short term, and replacing the uranium fuel cycle in nuclear systems with the thorium fuel cycle in the long term. The latter would provide abundant, reliable and safe energy with no CO2 production, no air pollution, and minimal ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • From Transuranic to Superheavy Elements

    A Story of Dispute and Creation

    by Helge Kragh ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The story of superheavy elements - those at the very end of the periodic table - is not well known outside the community of heavy-ion physicists and nuclear chemists. But it is a most interesting story which deserves to be known also to historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science and indeed to the general public. This is what the present work aims at. It tells the story or rather parts ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The History and Science of the Manhattan Project

    by Bruce Cameron Reed ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The development of atomic bombs under the auspices of the U. S. Army’s Manhattan Project during World War II is considered to be the outstanding news story of the twentieth century. In this book, a physicist and expert on the history of the Project presents a comprehensive overview of this momentous achievement. The first three chapters cover the history of nuclear physics from the discovery of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD