ABSTRACT

Nuclear power is in the midst of a generational change-with new reactor designs, plant subsystems, fuel concepts, and other information that must be explained and explored-and after the 2011 Japan disaster, nuclear reactor technologies are, of course, front and center in the public eye. Written by leading experts from MIT, Nuclear Systems Volume I:

chapter 2|42 pages

Thermal Design Principles and Application

chapter 3|58 pages

Reactor Energy Distribution

chapter 4|54 pages

Transport Equations for Single-Phase Flow

chapter 5|50 pages

Transport Equations for Two-Phase Flow

chapter 8|80 pages

Thermal Analysis of Fuel Elements

chapter 9|96 pages

Single-Phase Fluid Mechanics

chapter 10|68 pages

Single-Phase Heat Transfer

chapter 11|94 pages

Two-Phase Flow Dynamics

chapter 12|44 pages

Pool Boiling

chapter 13|82 pages

Flow Boiling

chapter 14|64 pages

Single Heated Channel: Steady-State Analysis