Nuclear Energy category: 275 books
Nuclear Energy
An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Nuclear Energy is one of the most popular texts ever published on basic nuclear physics, systems, and applications of nuclear energy. This newest edition continues the tradition of offering a holistic treatment of everything the undergraduate engineering student needs to know in a clear and accessible...
Nuclear Power
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book looks at the early history of nuclear power, at what happened next, and at its longer-term prospects. The main question is: can nuclear power overcome the problems that have emerged? It was once touted as the ultimate energy source, freeing mankind from reliance on dirty, expensive fossil...
Nuclear Energy and Liability in South Asia
Institutions, Legal Frameworks and Risk Assessment within SAARC
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This book advocates pursuing a regional approach to nuclear risk framework, which it argues is more promising in the current scenario than the non-achievable global regime. In the development of international legislation on liability, the nuclear energy sector represents an alternative approach to...
The Economic History of Nuclear Energy in Spain
Governance, Business and Finance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This book analyses the economic history of the nuclear program in Spain, from its inception in the 1950s to the nuclear moratorium in the early 1980s, and investigates the economic, financial and business origins of atomic energy in Spain. The actual dimension of the Spanish nuclear sector, which...
Energy from Nuclear Fission
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2016
This book provides an overview on nuclear physics and energy production from nuclear fission. It serves as a readable and reliable source of information for anyone who wants to have a well-balanced opinion about exploitation of nuclear fission in power plants.
The text is divided into two...
by Didier Sornette, Wolfgang Kröger, Spencer Wheatley
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
The history of mankind is a story of ascent to unprecedented levels of comfort, productivity and consumption, enabled by the increased mastery of the basic reserves and flows of energy. This miraculous trajectory is confronted by the consensus that anthropogenic emissions are harmful and must decrease,...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
What contribution can nuclear energy make to improve the security of energy supply? This study, which examines a selection of OECD member countries, qualitatively and quantitatively validates the often intuitive assumption that, as a largely domestic source of electricity with stable costs and no...
Thorium Energy for the World
Proceedings of the ThEC13 Conference, CERN, Globe of Science and Innovation, Geneva, Switzerland, October 27-31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
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...
by Galen J. Suppes, Truman Storvick
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Sustainable Nuclear Power provides non-nuclear engineers, scientists and energy planners with the necessary information to understand and utilize the major advances in the field. The book demonstrates that nuclear fission technology has the abundance and attainability to provide centuries of safe...
by Maxwell Irvine
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about the security of their future supply. However, the term 'nuclear power' causes anxiety in many people...
Nuclear Energy for Hydrogen Generation through Intermediate Heat Exchangers
A Renewable Source of Energy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book describes recent technological developments in next generation nuclear reactors that have created renewed interest in nuclear process heat for industrial applications. The author’s discussion mirrors the industry’s emerging focus on combined cycle Next Generation Nuclear Plants’...
Nuclear Roulette
The Truth about the Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Nuclear power is not clean, cheap, or safe. With Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, the nuclear industry's record of catastrophic failures now averages one major disaster every decade. After three US-designed plants exploded in Japan, many countries moved to abandon reactors for renewables....
Power to Save the World
The Truth About Nuclear Energy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
An informed look at the myths and fears surrounding nuclear energy, and a practical, politically realistic solution to global warming and our energy needs. Faced by the world's oil shortages and curious about alternative energy sources, Gwyneth Cravens skeptically sets out to find the truth about...
Understanding and Mitigating Ageing in Nuclear Power Plants
Materials and Operational Aspects of Plant Life Management (PLIM)
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Plant life management (PLiM) is a methodology focussed on the safety-first management of nuclear power plants over their entire lifetime. It incorporates and builds upon the usual periodic safety reviews and licence renewals as part of an overall framework designed to assist plant operators and regulators...