Nuclear Energy: An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes by Raymond Murray

Product Description

Nuclear Energy, Fifth Edition provides nuclear engineers, plant designers and radiation physicists with a comprehensive overview of nuclear energy and its uses, discusses potential problems and provides an outlook for the future

New and important trends are discussed including probabilistic safety analysis (PSA), deregulation of the electric power industry to permit competition in the supply of electricity; improvements in performance characteristics of nuclear power plants, such as capacity factor, production costs, and safety factors; storage and disposal of all types of radioactive wastes; advances in decontamination, decommissioning and reutilization; continued progress in evolutionary reactors; increased interest in the role of nuclear power in reducing pollution and global warming. Attention will also be given to the developments in such countries as Russia, Ukraine, France, Sweden, South Korea, China and Third World Countries. The author also looks at the problems of nuclear weapons proliferation and the potential threat from terrorist organizations or reckless countries. In addition, the author has identified Web sites and other electronic information sources to supplement all of the topics covered in this book.

* Latest edition with updated content in important subject areas
* Free downloadable software accompanies book contents
* Revised instructor's manual to accompany book
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #584924 in Books
Published on: 2001-01-15
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
490 pages
Editorial Reviews

Chaos Solitons & Fractals
"Nuclear engineers, plant designers and radiation physicists are provided a comprehensive overview of nuclear energy and its uses."

Review
"Nuclear engineers, plant designers and radiation physicists are provided a comprehensive overview of nuclear energy and its uses. New and important trends are discussed including probabilistic safety analysis; deregulation of the electric power-industry to permit competition in the supply of electricity; improvements in performance characteristics of nuclear power plants, such as capacity factor, production costs and safety factors; storage and disposal of all types of radioactive wastes; advances in decontamination, decommissioning and reutilization; continued progress in evolutionary reactors; increased interest in the role of nuclear power in reducing pollution and global warning. Most importantly attention is give to the developments in countries such as Russia, Ukraine, France, Sweden, South Korea, China and Third-World countries. The book also looks at the problems of nuclear weapons proliferation and the potential threat from terrorist organizations. Web sites and other electronic information sources are included to supplement all of the topics covered, along with an instructor manual."
-Chaos Solitons & Fractals

Dr.Murray's subtitle to his excellent book is "An Introduction to Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes" which allows me to recommend it particularly to students of the topic. However, I would be doing the rest of the "nuclear" fraternity an injustice by excluding them as this is a splendid reference book and, indeed, Dr.Murray's list of references at the end of each chapter is all embracing and includes numerous website addresses as well as the more usual bibliography. - Keith Simm, Managing Editor, "The Nuclear Engineer"

- Keith Simm, Managing Editor,
...this is a splendid reference book...Includes numerous website addresses as well as the more usual bibliography.
Customer Reviews

Good introduction to nuclear energy
This introduction to nuclear physics is very clear and covers all the essential elements.

A student's perspective
This was used as the textbook for my introduction to nuclear engineering class. While the information as present and relevant, it is presented in a meandering way that doesn't tell you what's important. The problems presented at the end of each chapter expect you to remember numbers and formulas that may have only been mentioned in passing 7 chapters ago. Further, each step of the problems has been rounded, making the final answer very different from that gained by simply doing the entire equation all at once. This may have been understandable when the first edition was written, but we have progressed significantly beyond the slide-rule, and the new generation of nuclear engineers is operating with much more sophisticated technology. The available instructor's answer guide to the problems does not even give the location of equations and numbers, nor is there a comprehensive appendix with all forumlas and numbers.

I thought it was wonderful
it was incredable it was pack full of information it was great for my project I recamend it to anyone