Nuclear electric power
Subtitle: safety, operation and control aspects
By: J.B. Knowles
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hoboken, New Jersey
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781118551707
Subjects: Nuclear power plants; Nuclear reactors; Safety measures; Control; Nuclear energy; Electric power systems
Notes: "Published simultaneously in Canada"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Glossary; title: Principal Nomenclature; title: 1. Energy Sources, Grid Compatibility, Economics and the Environment; title: Background; title: Geothermal Energy; title: Hydro-Electricity; title: Solar Energy; title: Tidal Energy; title: Wind Energy; title: Fossil-Fired Power Generation; title: Nuclear Generation and Reactor Choice; title: A Prologue; title: 2. Adequacy of Linear Models and Nuclear Reactor Dynamics; title: Linear Models, Stability and Nyquist Theorems; title: Mathematical Descriptions of a Neutron Population; title: Point Model of Neutron Kinetics; title: Temperature and Other Operational Feedback Effects; title: Reactor Control : Its Stable Period and Re-equilibrium; title: 3. Some Power Station and Grid Control Problems; title: Steam Drum Water-Level Control; title: Flow Stability in Parallel Boiling Channels; title: Grid Power Systems and Frequency Control; title: Grid Disconnection for a Nuclear Station with Functioning Scram; title: 4. Some Aspects of Nuclear Accidents and Their Mitigation; title: Reactor Accident Classification by Probabilities; title: Hazards from an Atmospheric Release of Fission Products; title: Mathematical Risk, Event Trees and Human Attitudes; title: The Farmer-Beattie Siting Criterion; title: Examples of Potential Severe Accidents in Fast Reactors and PWRs with their Consequences; title: 5. Molten Fuel Coolant Interactions : Analyses and Experiments; title: A History and a Mixing Analysis; title: Coarse Mixtures and Contact Modes in Severe Nuclear Accidents; title: Some Physics of a Vapor Film and its Interface; title: Heat Transfer from Contiguous Melt; title: Heat Transfer at a Liquid-Vapor Interface and the Condensation Coefficient; title: Kinetics, Heat Diffusion, a Triggering Simulation and Reactor Safety; title: Melt Fragmentation, Heat Transfer, Debris Sizes and MFCI Yield; title: Features of the BUBEX Code and an MFTF Simulation; title: 6. Primary Containment Integrity and Impact Studies; title: Primary Containment Integrity; title: The Pi-Theorem, Scale Models and Replicas; title: Experimental Impact Facilities; title: Computational Techniques and an Aircraft Impact; title: 7. Natural Circulation, Passive Safety Systems and Debris-bed Cooling; title: Natural Circulation in Nuclear Plant; title: Passive Safety Systems for Water Reactors; title: Core Debris-bed Cooling in Water Reactors; title: Epilogue.