Название: Introduction to Nuclear Engineering, Second Edition
Автор: John R. Lamarsh
Издательство: Addison-Wesley
Год: 1983
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 702
Размер: 18 МБ
Язык: English

At his untimely death in July 1981, John R. Lamarsh had almost completed a revision of the first edition of Introduction to Nuclear Engineering. The major part of his effort went into considerable expansion of Chapters 4, 9, and 11 and into the addition of numerous examples and problems in many of the chapters. However, the original structure of that edition has been unchanged.
Chapter 4, Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Power, has been completely restructured and much new material has been added. Detailed descriptions of additional types of reactors are presented. Extensive new sections include discussion of the nuclear fuel cycle, resource utilization, isotope separation, fuel reprocessing, and radioactive waste disposal.
In Chapter 9, Radiation Protection, considerable new material has been added on the biological effects of radiation, and there is a new section on the calculation of radiation effect. The section on the sources of radiation, both artificial and natural, has been expanded, and the sections on standards of radiation protection and computation of exposure have been brought up to date. A section on standards for intake of radionuclides has also been added.
In Chapter 11, Reactor Licensing, Safety, and the Environment, the sections on dispersion of effluents and radiation doses from nuclear facilities have been considerably expanded to cover new concepts and situations. Included in this chapter is a discussion of the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island. The structure of this chapter has been kept as it was in the first edition in spite of the earlier suggestion that it be broken up into two chapters treating environmental effects separately from safety and licensing.
Several errors that were still present in the last printing of the first edition have been corrected, including those in Example 6.7 and in the table of Bessel functions in Appendix V.
We are indebted to many of John Lamarsh’s friends and colleagues who helped in many ways to see this revision completed. Particularly, we wish to thank Norman C. Rasmussen, Raphael Aronson, Marvin M. Miller, and Edward Mel-konian for their assistance in the final stages of this revision.
Finally, we are grateful for comments and suggestions received from users of the earlier edition of this book. Although all their suggestions could not be incorporated, the book is greatly improved as a result of their comments.

November 1982

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

Reading, Massachusetts