Handbook of Nuclear Engineering

Abstract

Each of the five volumes of this handbook is devoted to a representative segmentof the field of nuclear engineering and technology, as indicated by their respective titles. They commence with a presentation of the fundamental sciences underlying nuclear engineering and move successively on to reactor design and analysis, fuel cycles, decommissioning, waste disposal, and safeguards of nuclear materials. As a whole, the handbook strives, of course, to cover all of the representative aspects of this field.