Nuclear Power Reactor Development: History, Technologies, and Lessons (Hardcover)

Early Reactor Development in the United States.- Power Uprating of Light Water Reactors.- Advancement of Light Water Reactor Technology.- Light Water Reactor.- Passive Safety Light Water Reactors and Severe Accident Countermeasures.- Heavy Water Moderated Reactors: CANDU etc..- Graphite Moderated Reactors.- Liquid Metal Cooled Fast Breeder Reactors and Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle.- Uranium Resources, Uranium Enrichment, Reprocessing and Plutonium-Utilization in LWRs.- Economic and Political Aspects of Plutonium Use.- Liquid Fuel Reactors, Molten Salt Reactors.- Organic Cooled Reactors.- Nuclear Reactors and Radioisotope Power Sources for Aerospace.- Generation III and Generation IV Nuclear Reactors.- Investment Risk Reduction and Power Generation Cost Reduction.- Concept of Supercritical Pressure Light Water Reactors.- Concept of Nuclear Fusion Reactors.- Concept of Fusion-Fission Hybrid Reactors.- University Nuclear Engineering Education.- Research and Development and Knowledge Base for Nuclear Utilization.- Summary and Discussion.- Exercise.