UID:
almafu_9958127850102883
Format:
1 electronic document (various pagings) :
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illustrations (some color).
ISBN:
9780750311045
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0750311045
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9780750311052
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0750311053
Series Statement:
IOP expanding physics,
Content:
Concerns around global warming have led to a nuclear renaissance in many countries, meanwhile the nuclear industry is warning already of a need to train more nuclear engineers and scientists, who are needed in a range of areas from healthcare and radiation detection to space exploration and advanced materials as well as for the nuclear power industry. Here Karl Whittle provides a solid overview of the intersection of nuclear engineering and materials science at a level approachable by advanced students from materials, engineering and physics. The text explains the unique aspects needed in the design and implementation of materials for use in demanding nuclear settings. In addition to material properties and their interaction with radiation the book covers a range of topics including reactor design, fuels, fusion, future technologies and lessons learned from past incidents. Accompanied by problems, videos and teaching aids the book is suitable for a course text in nuclear materials and a reference for those already working in the field.
Note:
"Version: 20160501"--Title page verso.
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EPUB version includes embedded videos.
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Preface -- 1. Atomic considerations -- 1.1. Isotopes -- 1.2. Nuclear stability and radioactive decay -- 1.3. Alpha-decay ([alpha]-decay) -- 1.4. Beta-decay ([beta]-decay) -- 1.5. Beta+/positron emission or electron capture -- 1.6. Gamma emission -- 1.7. How do the mechanisms relate to each other? -- 1.8. Radioactive half-life -- 1.9. Decay series -- 1.10. Observations on isotope stability -- 1.11. Binding energy -- 1.12. Fission and fusion -- 1.13. Spontaneous fission -- 1.14. Inducing fission and chain reactions -- 1.15. Neutron absorption and fissile and fertile isotopes -- 1.16. Increasing fission yield -- 1.17. What are the key criteria for nuclear fission?
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2. Radiation damage -- 2.1. Key definitions -- 2.2. Radiation damage -- 2.3. Prediction of damage--the Kinchin-Pease methodology -- 2.4. Implications of damage -- 2.5. Outcomes from damage -- 2.6. Modelling damage build-up in materials -- 2.7. The bulk effects of damage
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3. Nuclear fuel, part 1 : fuel and cladding -- 3.1. What is required from fuel in a fission reactor? -- 3.2. Reminder of the fission process -- 3.3. What are the realistic types of fuel? -- 3.4. Uranium -- 3.5. Plutonium -- 3.6. Fuel containment -- 3.7. Zirconium-based cladding -- 3.8. Iron-based cladding -- 3.9. How do fuel and cladding relate to each other?
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4. Nuclear fuel, part 2 : operational effects -- 4.1. Initial stages -- 4.2. Classical effects from heating -- 4.3. Fission products -- 4.4. Initial reactor operation -- 4.5. Fuel cladding under operation within the core -- 4.6. Fuel and cladding -- 4.7. Cladding corrosion
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5. Evolution of reactor technologies -- 5.1. Generation I--prototype reactors -- 5.2. GenII--commercial reactors -- 5.3. GenerationIII/generationIII+--evolved designs -- 5.4. Molten salt reactors -- 5.5. Summary
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6. The challenges for materials in new reactor designs -- 6.1. Generation IV--genesis -- 6.2. Reactor types -- 6.3. Material challenges in GenIV -- 6.4. Containment -- 6.5. Radiation damage -- 6.6. Alternative reactor technology -- 6.7. Travelling wave reactor -- 6.8. Thorium reactors -- 6.9. Small modular reactors (SMR)
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7. The challenges of nuclear waste -- 7.1. Sources of nuclear waste -- 7.2. Natural sources of uranium/thorium -- 7.3. Long-term effects in waste forms -- 7.4. Long-term behaviour of nuclear waste -- 7.5. Geological disposal of nuclear waste -- 7.6. Ceramics and glasses--comparison -- 7.7. Transmutation
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8. Materials and nuclear fusion -- 8.1. Atomic background and recap -- 8.2. Requirements for fusion -- 8.3. ITER--the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor -- 8.4. Outcomes and challenges in fusion -- 8.5. Material requirements -- 8.6. Radiation damage and the first wall -- 8.7. Sputtering -- 8.8. Gas bubble formation -- 8.9. The divertor -- 8.10. Breeding and heat generation -- 8.11. Tritium breeding -- 8.12. Challenges in fission and fusion
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9. Mistakes made and lessons learnt -- 9.1. Windscale--Pile 1 -- 9.2. Three Mile Island--Reactor 2 -- 9.3. Chernobyl--Reactor 4 -- 9.4. Fukushima Daiichi -- 9.5. How do the incidents compare?
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Also available in print.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader or EPUB reader.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780750311052
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1088/978-0-7503-1104-5
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