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UNINA9910453284403321 |
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Autore |
Knowles J. Brian |
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Nuclear electric power : safety, operation, and control aspects / / J. Brian Knowles |
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Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley and Sons, Incorporation, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1-118-82829-1 |
1-118-66039-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 p.) |
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Nuclear power plants |
Nuclear reactors - Safety measures |
Nuclear reactors - Control |
Nuclear energy |
Electric power systems |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nuclear Electric Power: Safety, Operation, and Control Aspects; Contents; Preface; Glossary; Principal Nomenclature; 1. Energy Sources, Grid Compatibility, Economics, and the Environment; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Geothermal Energy; 1.3 Hydroelectricity; 1.4 Solar Energy; 1.5 Tidal Energy; 1.6 Wind Energy; 1.7 Fossil-Fired Power Generation; 1.8 Nuclear Generation and Reactor Choice; 1.9 A Prologue; 2. Adequacy of Linear Models and Nuclear Reactor Dynamics; 2.1 Linear Models, Stability, and Nyquist Theorems; 2.2 Mathematical Descriptions of a Neutron Population; 2.3 A Point Model of Reactor Kinetics |
2.4 Temperature and Other Operational Feedback Effects 2.5 Reactor Control, its Stable Period and Re-equilibrium; 3. Some Power Station and Grid Control Problems; 3.1 Steam Drum Water-Level Control; 3.2 Flow Stability in Parallel Boiling Channels; 3.3 Grid Power Systems and Frequency Control; 3.4 Grid Disconnection for a Nuclear Station with Functioning "Scram"; 4. Some Aspects of Nuclear Accidents and Their Mitigation; 4.1 Reactor Accident Classification by Probabilities; 4.2 |
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Hazards from an Atmospheric Release of Fission Products; 4.3 Mathematical Risk, Event Trees, and Human Attitudes |
4.4 The Farmer-Beattie Siting Criterion 4.5 Examples of Potential Severe Accidents in Fast Reactors and PWR's with their Consequences; 5. Molten Fuel Coolant Interactions: Analyses and Experiments; 5.1 A History and a Mixing Analysis; 5.2 Coarse Mixtures and Contact Modes in Severe Nuclear Accidents; 5.3 Some Physics of a Vapor Film and its Interface; 5.4 Heat Transfer from Contiguous Melt; 5.5 Mass Transfer at a Liquid-Vapor Interface and the Condensation Coefficient; 5.6 Kinetics, Heat Diffusion, a Triggering Simulation, and Reactor Safety |
5.7 Melt Fragmentation, Heat Transfer, Debris Sizes, and MFCI Yield 5.8 Features of the Bubex Code and an MFTF Simulation; 6. Primary Containment Integrity and Impact Studies; 6.1 Primary Containment Integrity; 6.2 The Pi-Theorem, Scale Models, and Replicas; 6.3 Experimental Impact Facilities; 6.4 Computational Techniques and an Aircraft Impact; 7. Natural Circulation, Passive Safety Systems, and Debris-Bed Cooling; 7.1 Natural Convection in Nuclear Plants; 7.2 Passive Safety Systems for Water Reactors; 7.3 Core Debris-Bed Cooling in Water Reactors; 7.4 An Epilogue; References; Index |
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Assesses the engineering of renewable sources for commercial power generation and discusses the safety, operation, and control aspects of nuclear electric power From an expert who advised the European Commission and UK government in the aftermath of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl comes a book that contains experienced engineering assessments of the options for replacing the existing, aged, fossil-fired power stations with renewable, gas-fired, or nuclear plants. From geothermal, solar, and wind to tidal and hydro generation, Nuclear Electric Power: Safety, Operation |
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UNINA9910778235503321 |
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Autore |
Kline Harvey F |
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Chronicle of a failure foretold [[electronic resource] ] : the peace process of Colombian president Andrés Pastrana / / Harvey F. Kline |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (245 p.) |
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Negotiation - Colombia |
Peace |
Colombia Politics and government 1974- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index. |
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Colombia before the presidency of Andrés Pastrana : the context for failure -- The immediate context for the Pastrana negotiations : the government of Ernesto Samper (1994-1998) -- The FARC negotiations begin : June 1998-January 1999 -- The first agreements of the FARC negotiations : January 1999-January 2001 -- The negotiations in 2001 : agreements on process but not on substance -- The FARC negotiations end : January-February 2002 -- The ELN discussions through the Declaration of Geneva : September 1998-July 2000 -- The failure of the ELN discussions -- Why the Pastrana peace process failed. |
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Charts the progress and failure of Colombian President Andrés Pastrana's efforts to bring an end to sixty years of civil war. The civil war in Colombia has waxed and waned for almost sixty years with shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties and with bursts of appalling violence punctuated by uneasy truces, cease-fires, and attempts at reconciliation. Varieties of Marxism, the economics of narco-trafficking, peasant land hunger, poverty, and oppression mix together in a toxic stew that has claimed uncounted lives of (most often) peasants, co |
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