How to drive a nuclear reactor / / by Colin Tucker
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| Autore: |
Tucker Colin
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| Titolo: |
How to drive a nuclear reactor / / by Colin Tucker
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland AG : , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XVII, 264 pages, 131 illustrations., 122 illustrations in color.) |
| Disciplina: | 621.48 |
| Soggetto topico: | Physics |
| Nuclear energy | |
| Nuclear physics | |
| Heavy ions | |
| Power electronics | |
| Energy | |
| Reactors nuclears | |
| Popular Science in Physics | |
| Nuclear Energy | |
| Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons | |
| Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks | |
| Popular Science in Energy | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | One Man and His Dog -- Physics is Phun -- Being Friendly to Neutrons -- Criticality is Not as Bad as it Sounds -- What Makes Nuclear Special? -- The Thing you put your Reactor in.... -- Pull the Rods Out and Stand Back -- Watt Power? -- Your Reactor is Stable (Part One) -- You've got to do Something with all that Steam... -- The Big Red Button -- Your Reactor is Stable (Part Two) -- Putting a Spin on it -- Going Up! -- Power, and How to Change it -- Steady Power with Nothin to do? -- It's All About Safety -- What Can Go Wrong (and what you can do about it...) -- Smaller isn't Always Easier -- What Else Can Go Wrong? -- When you run out of Oomph -- Other Reactor Designs are Available -- How to Build your own Reactor -- And there's more... -- Conclusion. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Have you ever wondered how a nuclear power station works? This book will answer that question. It’ll take you on a journey from the science behind nuclear reactors, through their start-up, operation and shutdown. Along the way it covers a bit of the engineering, reactor history, different kinds of reactors and what can go wrong with them. Much of this is seen from the viewpoint of a trainee operator on a Pressurised Water Reactor - the most common type of nuclear reactor in the world. Colin Tucker has spent the last thirty years keeping reactors safe. Join him on a tour that is the next best thing to driving a nuclear reactor yourself! |
| Titolo autorizzato: | How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor |
| ISBN: | 9783030338763 |
| 3030338762 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910373926903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Springer-Praxis books in popular science