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Understanding Nuclear Reactors: Global Warming and the Hydrogen Strategy

Understanding Nuclear Reactors: Global Warming and the Hydrogen Strategy


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Understanding Nuclear Reactors provides a non-mathematical understanding of how nuclear reactors operate. It describes the components, the Pressure Vessel, the Pressuriser to control the pressure in a Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR), and the Steam Generator and it also explains how the chain reaction is controlled in the day-to-day operations in the Control Room. What goes on elsewhere in the nuclear fuel cycle, mining, enrichment, fuel manufacturer, spent fuel management, and reprocessing are also covered in detail. The book tells a set of historical stories about the development of the physics behind reactors and the discovery of fission and explains the hopes for the development of Generation IV reactors. Special attention is given to the safety of reactors and the lessons to be learned from the incidents at Three Mile Island, Browns Ferry, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. Hooton uses a set of stories to explain the invisible hazard of radiation on the human body. Global warming was the motivation for the book, so Hooton offers a detailed account of alternative energy sources to fossil fuel, solar panels, wind turbines, geothermal, as well as nuclear. He gives a detailed account of all the current developments in nuclear fusion as a future prospect for the production of electricity. The hydrogen strategy is emerging, and may become a revolution, but it is a very subtle partner in the quest for net zero, so he includes a detailed account of how it fits into the plan to defeat Global warming.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction and Prelude 1.1: Global Warming 1.2: Capacity Factors 1.3: Welcome to the Nuclear Age 1.4: The First Electricity Producing Reactors 1.5: The Prelude 2. Fundamental Nuclear Physics 2.1: The Pauli Exclusion Principle 2.2: Nuclear Forces 2.3: Nuclear Reactions 2.4: Energy and Mass Units 2.5: Photons 2.6: Antimatter, Pair Production, and Annihilation 2.7: Mass Defects, Q Values, and Cross-Sections 2.8: Cross-Sections 2.9: The Discovery of Radioactivity 2.10: The General Characteristics of Radioactivity 2.11: Gamma Decay 2.12: Spontaneous Fission 3. Basic Quantum Theory 3.1: Skip this Chapter if you Wish 3.2: The Uncertainty Principle 3.3: The Theoretical Treatment of Nuclear Physics 3.4: Atomic Spectra and Quantum Numbers 3.5: Sommerfeld's Contribution 3.6: Pauli's Contribution 3.7: Spin and Parity 3.8: Alpha Decay 3.9: Beta Decay and the Story of the Neutrino 3.10: The Discovery of the Neutron 3.11: Quantum Theory and Beyond 4. The Story of E = MC2 and Relativity 4.1: The Unification of Electricity and Magnetism 4.2: Relative Motion 4.3: Einstein's Theory 4.4: Standards of Mass, Length, and Time 5. The Fission Process and the Characteristics of Fission 5.1: The Discovery of Fission 5.2: Niels Bohr and Copenhagen 5.3: The Fission Process 5.4: Neutron Interactions 5.5: The Fate of Gamma Rays 5.6: Fission Fragments 5.7: Delayed Neutrons 5.8: The Energy of Fission 5.9: Decay Heat 5.10: The Chain Reaction 6. Nuclear Reactors in General 6.1: Nuclear Reactor Calculations 6.2: The Growth of the Neutron Population 6.3: The Six Factor Formula 6.4: The Effect of Delayed Neutrons on Reactor Control 6.5: Reactivity 6.6: Monte Carlo Models 6.7: Nuclear Reactor Operations 6.8: Fuel 6.9: Moderators 6.10: Coolants 6.11: Poisons 6.12: Control Poisons 6.13: Unavoidable Poisons 6.14: Burnable Poisons 6.15: Engineering Materials 6.16: The Fast Reactor 6.17: Hybrid Reactors 7. Reactor Operations and Control 7.1: Controlling Reactors to Keep them Safe 7.2: The First Reactors 7.3: Reactor CP1 7.4: Controlling Commercial Reactors 7.5: The Reactor Pressure Vessel 7.6: The Reactor Coolant Pump 7.7: The Pressuriser 7.8: The Steam Generator 7.9: The Boron Loading Loop 7.10: Power Measurement 7.11: The Fuel Temperature Coefficient (FTC) 7.12: The Moderator Temperature Coefficient (MTC) 7.13: The Void Coefficient 7.14: Changes In Steam Demand 7.15: Control Room Operations 8. Safety 8.1: Safety, Risk, and Consequences 8.2: The Regulators 8.3: Decay Heat Removal 8.4: Loss of Coolant 8.5: Passive Safety Measures 8.6: The Windscale Fire 8.7: Brown's Ferry 8.8: Three Mile Island 8.9: Chernobyl 1986 8.10: Problems in the Fukushima Region of Japan 8.11: Safety Overview 8.12: Understanding the Health Hazard of Radiation 9. The Nuclear Fuel Cycle 9.1: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Definition 9.2: Mining 9.3: Enrichment 9.4: Fuel Fabrication 9.5: Spent Fuel Management 9.6: Spent Fuel Ponds 9.7: Cherenkov Radiation 9.8: Reprocessing 9.9: Nuclear Waste 10. International Treaties and Obligations 10.1: Euratom 10.2: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, NPT 10.3: The International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA 10.4: Nuclear Safeguards 10.5: Obligations 11. The Future of Fission Reactors and Fusion 11.1: The Alternatives to Fossil Fuel 11.2: Generation IV Technology 11.3: The Move to Higher Temperatures 11.4: The Move to Fast Reactors 11.5: The Move to SMRs and AMRs 11.6: Plutonium Breeding 11.7: Thorium Breeding 11.8: New Coolants 11.9: Molten Salts 11.10: New Types of Fuel 11.11: Burning Waste and Using the Minor Actinides as Fuel 11.12: New Reprocessing Technology 11.13: The Economics and Politics of Electricity Generation 11.14: The Utilisation of E = MC2 12. Nuclear Fusion 12.1: The Fusion Process 12.2: Producing Fusion in the Laboratory 12.3: ITER 12.4: MAST and STEP 12.5: The Fuel for Fusion 12.6: The Tritium Breeding Ratio, TBR 12.7: Venture Capital 12.8: The Conclusion on Fusion 13. The Hydrogen Strategy 13.1: The Basic Properties of Hydrogen 13.2: The Production of Hydrogen 13.3: Carbon Capture 13.4: Energy Storage 13.5: New Markets for Hydrogen 13.6: Hydrogen in the Colours of the Rainbow 13.7: The Race to Deliver Net Zero Free

About the Author :
Brian Hooton became a Research Fellow in the Nuclear Physics Division at Harwell in 1961. In 1968 he had a sabbatical year at Chalk River, the Atomic Energy of Canada. Upon his return to Harwell, he became a Group Leader. In 1983 he was appointed as the Senior Advisor to the Secretary (SAS) at the London HQ of the UKAEA, where he had very broad responsibilities across the whole of the UKEAE's sites. Hooton retired from the UKAEA in 1991 and set up Nuclear Consultancy Services Ltd offering consultancy services to the nuclear industry.

Review :
It is an excellent read and, while only about 150 pages it is packed with essential information, with 13 chapters each containing a comprehensive index.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198902652
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Global Warming and the Hydrogen Strategy
  • Width: 175 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0198902654
  • Publisher Date: 20 May 2024
  • Height: 250 mm
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 496 gr


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