How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor. ([2019])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor. ([2019])
- Main Title:
- How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor
- Further Information:
- Note: By Colin Tucker.
- Authors:
- Tucker, Colin
- Contents:
- 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.
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations
- Subjects:
- 530
Physics
Nuclear energy
Nuclear physics
Heavy ions
Power electronics
Energy
Popular Science in Physics
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons
Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks
Popular Science in Energy - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783030338763
3030338762 - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.486676
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