Nuclear Reactor Engineering: Reactor Design Basics

by Samuel Glasstone

Economic and regulatory pressures have yielded considerable progress in the science and technology of nuclear reactor design. This book gives you a glimpse in the history of Nuclear reactor engineering and the means to compare the changes.

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First published July 1, 1955

Reviews

[Nick Black]

Required text for next semester's NRE 6201 and advised as prerequisite material for NRE 6301. I'm expecting a thorough ass-kicking from 6201 and would like to get started ASAP (also, I need to find a copy of Lewis & Miller's Computational Methods of Neutron Transport so I can convince them I needn't take 6101 -- all I've really read on the subject is Krane's awesome Introductory Nuclear Physics!). Heh, you've got to love the NRE 6303 course summary: "To introduce the students to the advanced theory and practice of nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics analysis under normal and accident conditions." If you're anything like me, just reading the graduate cirricula is getting you hot right now...I quote the inimitable Top Gun:

[watching a video of planes being shot down]
Wolfman: This gives me a hard on.
Hollywood: Don't tease me.

Why is this book $160? sigh....

[Jim Robles · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is hard to believe now but back then (1970), some people thought commercial nuclear power had a future in the U.S.