TY - BOOK AU - Kok,Kenneth D. TI - Nuclear engineering handbook T2 - Mechanical engineering series SN - 9781420053906 (hard back : alk. paper) AV - TK9151 .N834 2009 U1 - 621.48 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press KW - Nuclear engineering KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Section I. Nuclear power reactors ; historical development of nuclear power / Kenneth D. Koch ; pressurized water reactors (PWRs) / Richard Schreiber ; boiler water reactors (BWRs) / Kevin Theriault ; heavy water reactors / Alistair L. Miller, John Luxat, Edward G. Price, Romney B. Duffey, and Paul J. Feherenbach ; high-temperature gas cooled reactors / Arkal Shenoy and Chris Ellis ; generation IV technologies / Edwin A. Harvego and Richard R. Schultz -- Section II. Nuclear fuel cycle ; nuclear fuel resources / Stephen W. Kidd ; uranium enrichment / Nathan H. Hurt and William J. Wilcox, Jr. ; nuclear fuel fabrication / Kenneth D. Kok ; spent fuel storage / Kristopher W. Cummings ; nuclear fuel processing / Patricia Paviet-Hartmann, Bob Benedict, and Michael J. Lineberry ; waste disposal: transuranic waste, hgh-level waste and spent nuclear fuel, and low-level radioactive waste / Murthy Devarakonda and Robert D. Baird ; radioactive materials trasnsportation / Kurt Colborn ; decontamination and decommisssioning: "the act of D & D" - the art of balance / Cidney Voth ; HWR fuel cycles / Paul J. Fehernbach and Alistair L. Miiler -- Section III. related engineering and analytical processes ; risk assessment and safety analysis for commercial nuclear reactors / Yehia F. Khalil ; nuclear safety of government owned contractor operatied nuclear (GOCO) facilities / Arlen R. Schade ; neutronics / Ronald E. Pevey ; radiation protection / Matthew Arno ; heat transfer and thermal hydraulic analysis / Shripad T. Revenkar ; thermodynamics/power cycles / Yasuo Koizumi ; economics of nuclear power / Jay F. Kunze ER -