Nuclear Power & Engineering

Energy from Plasma: Production and Storage presents fundamental plasma as a pathway for energy generation and storage. The book covers emerging pla...

The first experiments with relativistic magnetrons (PM), resulted in notable results, in the USA Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the USS...

The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s. Harnessing fusion energy offers the pro...

In the fall of 2010, the Office of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Secretary for Science asked for a National Research Council (NRC) commit...

Several emerging application areas are driving a revival in nuclear engineering, including new nuclear reactor designs (advanced water-cooled react...

Over the decades, nuclear materials have been used in different domains for the development of human civilization. Our knowledge of nuclear propert...

This book is designed to help for developing the general understanding of all the knowledge essential to ensure the reactors structural integrity. ...

This book addresses a potential radiation incident caused by the war in Ukraine, from an interdisciplinary approach of medical, nuclear safety and ...

This open access is an educational text on reactor physics experiments and is described based on a careful examination of the contents and pedagogi...

This book highlights the process of heat applications driven by modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs) which have inherent safety cha...

This volume brings together analyses of key domestic, foreign and security policy issues during the Putin and Medvedev administrations. Indeed, the...

This book brings out the benefits and risks of radiation and nuclear power in a simple manner. Beginning with an introduction to the basics of radi...

Recent upheaval in the global energy system dramatic increases in demand led largely by developing countries, significant decreases in supply as a...

From the pilot's seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyl's exclusion zone and to the site in Finland where highly ...