Encyclopedia of Nuclear Energy provides a comprehensive and reliable overview of the many ways nuclear energy contributes to society, in four high quality volumes. It includes topics like generating clean electricity, improving medical diagnostics and cancer treatment, improving crop yields, improving food shelf-lives, and crucially, deployment of nuclear energy as an alternative energy source, proving essential in the management of global warming. Carefully structured into thematic sections, this encyclopedia brings together the vast and highly diversified literature related to nuclear energy into a single resource, with convenient to read cross-referenced chapters. Encyclopedia of Nuclear Energy is an invaluable tool for researchers in the fields of energy, engineering, material science, chemistry, and physics, from both industry and academia. One-stop resource - offers a contemporary review of current nuclear energy research and an insight into the future direction of the field, negating the need for individual searches across various databasesInterdisciplinary - chapters written by academics and practitioners from different fieldsensure that the knowledge within is easily understood by, and applicable to, a large audienceClearly structured - meticulously organized, articles are split into sections on key topics and clearly cross-referenced to allow students, researchers, and professionals to find relevant information quickly and easily INDICE: 1. Safety, licensing and decommissioning of power reactors 2. Fundamentals and history of development of nuclear energy 3. Commercial nuclear power reactors and their design 4. Advanced nuclear reactor concepts under R&D 5. The nuclear fuel and fuel cycle 6. The nuclear waste and its disposal 7. Radiation protection 8. Nuclear power for space and propulsion 9. Research reactors 10. Medical, Industrial and Agricultural Applications of Nuclear Technology 11. Social issues of nuclear energy 12. Non-electric applications of terrestrial nuclear reactors 13. Nuclear fusion R&D
- ISBN: 978-0-12-819725-7
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 3068
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2021
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés