Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia is the A-to-Z reference resource for nuclear energy information.

Filled with figures, graphs, diagrams, formulas, and photographs, which accompany the short, easily digestible entries, Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia is an accessible reference work on nuclear energy, and includes coverage of safety and environmental issues that are particularly topical in light of the Fukushima Daiichi incident.

A definitive work on all aspects of the world's energy supply, the Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia brings together decades of knowledge about energy sources and technologies ranging from coal and oil, to biofuels and wind, and ultimately nuclear power.

Contents

Part I: General Concepts

1. Nuclear Energy: Past, Present, and Future
2. Benefits and Role of Nuclear Power
3. Early History Of Nuclear Energy
4. Early Commercial Development of Nuclear Energy
5. Basic Concepts of Thermonuclear Fusion
6. Basic Concepts of Nuclear Fission
7. Oklo Natural Fission Reactor
8. Electrical Generation from Nuclear Power Plants
9. Nuclear Energy for Water Desalination
10. Nuclear Energy for Hydrogen Generation

Part II: Nuclear Fission

11. Uranium-Plutonium Nuclear Fuel Cycle
12. Global Perspective on Thorium Fuel
13. Design Principles of Nuclear Materials
14. Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
15. Safety of Nuclear Fission Reactors: Learning from Accidents
16. Spent Fuel and Waste Disposal
17. Fission Energy Usage: Status, Trends and Applications

Part III: Fission: Broad Application Reactor Technology

18. Light-Water-Moderated Fission Reactor Technology
19. CANDU Pressurized Heavy Water Nuclear Reactors
20. Graphite-Moderated Fission Reactor Technology
21. Status of Fast Reactors
22. Review of Generation-III/III+ Fission Reactors
23. Tomorrow's Hope for a Pebble-Bed Nuclear Reactor
24. Hydrogeology and Nuclear Energy

Part IV: Fission: Generation IV Reactor Technology

25. Introduction to Generation-IV Fission Reactors
26. The Very High Temperature Reactor
27. Supercritical Water Reactor
28. The Potential Use of Supercritical Water-Cooling in Nuclear Reactors
29. Generation-IV Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor
30. Generation-IV Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors (SFR)

Part V: Thermonuclear Fusion

31. Historical Origins and Development of Fusion Research
32. Plasma Physics and Engineering
33. Fusion Technology
34. ITER—An Essential and Challenging Step to Fusion Energy
35. Power Plant Projects
36. Safety and Environmental Features
37. Inertial Fusion Energy Technology
38. Hybrid Nuclear Reactors
39. Fusion Maintenance Systems
40. Fusion Economics

Part VI: Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions

41. Development of Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction Research
42. Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions: A Three-Stage Historical Perspective
43. Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions: Transmutations
44. Widom–Larsen Theory: Possible Explanation of LENRs
45. Potential Applications of LENRs

Part VII: Other Concepts

46. Acoustic Inertial Confinement Nuclear Fusion
47. Direct Energy Conversion Concepts

Index

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