Nuclear Energy: An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes, Eighth Edition, provides essential information on basic nuclear physics, systems and the applications of nuclear energy. It comprehensively covers Basic Concepts, Radiation and Its Uses, and Nuclear Power, providing students with a broad view of nuclear energy and science in a fast-paced format that features updated, timely content on topics of new and growing importance to current and future nuclear professionals, such as tritium-powered betavoltaic integrated circuit chips, the modulation of radioactive decay constant due to solar activity, Monte Carlo radiation transport calculations and accelerator-driven systems.
This book is an essential resource for any first course on nuclear energy and systems.
- ISBN10 0080512887
- ISBN13 9780080512884
- Publish Date 14 May 2014 (first published 1 January 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Butterworth-Heinemann
- Edition 5th ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 517
- Language English