
Encyclopedia of Nuclear Energy
Description
Key Features
- Offers a contemporary review of current nuclear energy research and insights into the future direction of the field, hence negating the need for individual searches across various databases
- Written by academics and practitioners from different fields to ensure that the knowledge within is easily understood by, and applicable to, a large audience
- Meticulously organized, with articles split into sections on key topics and clearly cross-referenced to allow students, researchers and professionals to quickly and easily find relevant information
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Table of Contents
1. Safety, licensing and decommissioning of power reactors
2. Fundamentals and history of development of nuclear energy
3. Commercial nuclear power reactors and their design
4. Advanced nuclear reactor concepts under R&D
5. The nuclear fuel and fuel cycle
6. The nuclear waste and its disposal
7. Radiation protection
8. Nuclear power for space and propulsion
9. Research reactors
10. Medical, Industrial and Agricultural Applications of Nuclear Technology
11. Social issues of nuclear energy
12. Non-electric applications of terrestrial nuclear reactors
13. Nuclear fusion R&D
Product details
- No. of pages: 3656
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2021
- Published: June 24, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128197257
- eBook ISBN: 9780128197325
About the Editor in Chief
Ehud Greenspan
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