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| Nuclear Energy
**Tracer Bullet 11-5**
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Nuclear power plant. Photo from the US Department of Labor Web site. **SCOPE**
In nuclear fission mass is converted into energy.  This enormous release of energy is controlled at sustained rates in nuclear power generating plants.  The heat that is generated is cooled by water which produces steam which in turn is used to run a turbine which generates electricity.  The entire nuclear fuel cycle starts with mining of fissionable material such as uranium followed by the controlled reactions and release of energy in the nuclear reactor, culminating in the disposal and/or reprocessing of the waste material.

 The use of nuclear power to generate electricity began in the late 1950s. About 15 percent of all electric power worldwide now comes from nuclear power plants; 20.7 percent of total U.S. electricity consumption, including electrical energy generation and transmission losses, is attributed to nuclear power.

 This guide to nuclear energy is not intended as a comprehensive bibliography, but highlights selected works about the production, distribution, and transmission of nuclear energy.  Many of the titles listed are available in the reference collection in the Science and Business Reading Room on the 5th floor of the Adams building at the Library of Congress. The guide is also available online at http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/tbs.html

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**INTRODUCTIONS TO THE TOPIC**
Reyes, José N., and John B. King.  Nuclear engineering.  In *Encyclopedia of energy,* v. 4.  Amsterdam, Boston, Elsevier Academic Press, c2004.  p. 315-331.                 TJ163.28.E53 2004 <SciRR>

 Tabak, John. *Nuclear energy*.  New York, Facts On File, c2009.  206 p.                 Bibliography: p. 188-191.                 QC792.T33 2009 <SciRR>

 Wood, Michael Burke.  Nuclear energy: technology.  In *Encyclopedia of energy engineering and technology*, v. 2.  Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, c2007.  p. 1125-1133.                 TJ163.2.E385 2007 <SciRR>

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**SUBJECT HEADINGS**
Subject headings used by the Library of Congress,               under which books on nuclear energy can be located in most card, book, and online catalogs, include the following:

**Highly Relevant**

 NUCLEAR ENERGY                  
**Relevant**

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING                      NUCLEAR FACILITIES                      NUCLEAR FUELS                      NUCLEAR INDUSTRY                      NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS                NUCLEAR REACTORS                                                        
**Related**
RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION                        RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL                        RADIOACTIVE WASTES                        RADIOACTIVITY                        RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES                  
**More General**

ENERGY INDUSTRIES                        NUCLEAR FISSION                        NUCLEAR PHYSICS                      POWER RESOURCES

 

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A spent nuclear fuel cask,  to be placed in Dry Storage at INEEL's Idaho Nuclear   Technology and Engineering Center. From the DOE Image Archive Center. Image ID: 2013517.

Rocky   Flats Environmental Technology Site - Removal of Special Nuclear   Materials (SNM) by   remote control vehicle with a vacuum hose, reducing   worker radiation exposure. From the DOE Image Archive Center. Image ID: 2012115.
**BASIC TEXTS**
 Angelo, Joseph A. *Nuclear technology.*Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 2004.  638 p.                 TK9145.A55 2004 <SciRR>

Bodansky, David. *Nuclear energy: principles, practices, and prospects.*2nd ed.  New York, Springer, c2004.  693 p.                  Includes bibliographical references.                  TK9145.B54 2004 <SciRR>

 Murray, Raymond LeRoy. *Nuclear energy: an introduction to the concepts, systems, and applications of nuclear processes.* 6th ed.  Burlington, VT, Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier, 2009.  532 p.                 TK9145.M87 2009 <SciRR>

 Newton, David E. *Nuclear power.* New York, Facts On File, c2006.  300 p.                  Bibliography: p. 146-211.                 TK9146.N453 2006 <SciRR>

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**ADDITIONAL TITLES**
*America's energy future: technology and transformation.* Committee on America's Energy Future, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, National Research Council of the National Academies.  Washington, National Academies Press, c2009.  711 p.                 Includes bibliographical references.                  See especially Chapter 8, Nuclear Energy, p. 445-562.                 TJ163.25.U6A464 2009 <SciRR>

 Botkin, Daniel B., and Diana Pérez. *Powering the future: a scientist’s guide to energy independence.* UpperSaddle River, NJ, FT Press, c2010.  330 p.                 Bibliography: p. 279-312.                 TJ163.25.U6B68 2010

 Jevremovic, Tatjana. *Nuclear principles in engineering.* New York, Springer, c2005.  442 p.                 Bibliography: p. 433-435.                 TK9145.J48 2005 <SciRR>

 Knief, Ronald Allen. *Nuclear engineering: theory and technology of commercial nuclear power.* 2nd ed.  LaGrange Park, IL,  American Nuclear Society, c2008.  770 p.                  Bibliography: p. 721-746.                 TK9145.K62 2008 <SciRR>

 McElroy, Michael B. *Energy: perspectives, problems, and prospects.* Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 2010.  409 p.                  Includes bibliographical references.                 See especially Chapter 9, Nuclear Power, p. 191-214.                 TJ163.2.M3843 2010 <SciRR>

 Montgomery, Scott L. *The powers that be: global energy for the twenty-first century and beyond.* Chicago, London, University of Chicago Press, c2010.  350 p.                 Bibliography: p. 299-328.                 HD9502.A2M656 2010 <SciRR>

 Shultis, J. Kenneth, and Richard E. Faw. *Fundamentals of nuclear science and engineering.* 2nd ed.  Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, c2008.  591 p.                 Includes bibliographical references                 TK9145.S474 2008

Stacey, Weston M. *Nuclear reactor physics.* 2nd ed.  Weinheim, Wiley-VCH, c2007.  706 p.                 Includes bibliographical references. |