Short description Nuclear reactors now account for a significant portion of the electrical power generated worldwide. This book is the second, completely revised and extended edition of the successful book on basic and advanced nuclear reactor physics.
From the contents Preface Part 1: Basic Reactor Physics 1. Neutron Nuclear Reactions 2. Neutron Chain Fission Reactors 3. Neutron Diffusion Theory 4. Neutron Energy Distribution 5. Nuclear Reactor Dynamics 6. Fuel Burnup 7. Nuclear Power Reactors 8. Reactor Safety Part2: Advanced Reactor Physics 9. Neutron Transport Theory 10. Neutron Slowing Down 11. Resonance Absorption 12. Neutron Thermalization 13. Perturbation and Variational Methods 14. Homogenization 15. Nodal and Synthesis Methods 16. Space-Time Neutron Kinetics Appendices A. Some Useful Nuclear Data B. Some Useful Mathematical Formulas C. Step Functions, Delta Functions, and Other Exotic Beasts D. Some Properties of Special Functions E. Introduction to Matrices and Matris Algebra F. Introduction to Laplace Transforms
