Submarine Propulsion
Subtitle: Muscle Power to Nuclear
Publisher: Frontier India Technology; Frontier India
Published: 2016
Place of publication: India
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9789385699061
Description: Longer period in submerged condition has been an important objective of submarines since early days and the propulsion has played a key role. The book catalogs evolution of submarine propulsion and has insights to development of nuclear propulsion by US, USSR, UK, France, China, India, Brazil and Argentina. The Indian experience of developing a land based nuclear propulsion prototype and its nuclear submarine INS Arihant has been described. Experts from France, Brazil and Argentina have contributed chapters on the projects from their respective countries.
Table of contents: title: PROLOGUE AND GRATITUDE; title: FOREWORD; title: SUBMERSIBLES — THE HUMAN CURIOSITY; title: MODERN DAY SUBMERSIBLES; title: SUBMARINE PROPULSION—MUSCLE POWER; title: MECHANICAL POWER REPLACES MUSCLE POWER; title: ELECTRIC POWER; title: SUBMARINE WARFARE DURING FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WARS; title: POST WORLD WAR II; title: AIR INDEPENDENT PROPULSION SYSTEMS; title: NUCLEAR PROPULSION IN US – The Delay—Technical & Organisational, Organisation Structure, Building of the land based unit and Nautilus, Seawolf, COLD WAR — Strategic deterrence, Post Cold War; title: NUCLEAR PROPULSION IN SOVIET UNION – Soviet Navy and Submarine History in Soviet Union, Nuclear Propulsion in the Soviet Union, Nuclear Powered Ice Breakers; title: NUCLEAR PROPULSION IN UK; title: NUCLEAR PROPULSION IN FRANCE; title: NUCLEAR PROPULSION IN CHINA; title: NPT, NWS, NNWS, NSG, MTCR; title: NUCLEAR PROPULSION IN INDIA – Indian Navy and the Submarines, The Beginning-Theoretical Studies, ATV Organization Setup, Independent ‘Design Safety Review Committee’, Land Based Prototype, Transportation of ODC from Chennai Port to IGCAR, Kalpakkam March 1994 , Light at the end of the Tunnel, Enriched Uranium, Challenges in conversion of U Hexafluoride to U Metal Powder, Fuel Fabrication for Nuclear Propulsion – Challenges Faced, The Challenge ‘Assembling the Reactor Compartment’, Subcritical experiments in the Spent Fuel Storage Pool, INS Arihant; title: NUCLEAR PROPULSION IN BRAZIL; title: NUCLEAR PROPULSION IN ARGENTINA; title: CIVILIAN SUBMARINES; title: REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY; title: ABOUT THE AUTHOR; title: ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS