Nuclear Energy

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Eugene Wigner and Nuclear Energy....Pages 3-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Memoir of the Uranium Project....Pages 23-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
For Discussion of the Homogeneous and Lattice Arrangements for Power Plants....Pages 135-141
Approximation for Radius of Sphere Sufficient for Chain Reaction in Light Isotope....Pages 142-148
Diffusion of Slow Neutrons in Absorbing Materials....Pages 149-153
Solution of Boltzmann’s Equation for Monoenergetic Neutrons in an Infinite Homogeneous Medium....Pages 154-164
Review of the Measurements of the Resonance Absorption of Neutrons by Uranium in Bulk....Pages 165-167
Resonance Absorption of Neutrons by Spheres....Pages 168-178
Effect of Geometry on Resonance Absorption of Neutrons by Uranium....Pages 179-183
Effect of Temperature on Total Resonance Absorption of Neutrons by Spheres of Uranium Oxide....Pages 184-187
Absorption of Thermal Neutrons in Uranium....Pages 188-218
Density of Neutrons in Carbon Block with and Without Absorbing Material....Pages 219-238
Report of the Committee for the Examination of the Moore-Leverett Design of a He-Cooled Plant....Pages 244-253
General Considerations Concerning the Lattice Structure....Pages 254-256
Survey of the Power Plant Problem....Pages 257-261
A Plant with Water Cooling....Pages 262-263
On a Plant with Water Cooling....Pages 264-296
Preliminary Process Design of Liquid Cooled Power Plant Producing 5 x 10 5 kW....Pages 297-359
Memorandum from P-9 Committee....Pages 360-375
Breeders and Converters: Minutes of Lecture on April 7, 1945....Pages 376-380
Back Matter....Pages 621-621
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Preliminary Calculations on a Breeder with Circulating Uranium....Pages 381-399
New Ideas for Nuclear Reactors....Pages 400-412
Project Hope: A Chemical Reprocessing Plant for a Nuclear Power Economy....Pages 413-415
Protection Against Radiations....Pages 416-420
Penetration of Fission Neutrons Through Water....Pages 421-424
On the Available Information Concerning the Interaction of Neutrinos with Matter....Pages 425-427
The Rate of Decay of Fission Products....Pages 428-440
The Effects of Radiation on Solids....Pages 441-448
Theoretical Physics in the Metallurgical Laboratory of Chicago....Pages 452-458
Mathematical Problems of Nuclear Reactor Theory....Pages 459-474
Resonance Escape Probability in Lattices....Pages 475-486
On the Utilization of Thermal Neutrons — I....Pages 487-498
Effect of the Temperature of the Moderator on the Velocity Distribution of Neutrons with Numerical Calculations for H as Moderator....Pages 499-508
Approximate Boundary Conditions for Diffusion Equation at Interface Between Two Media....Pages 509-512
On the Boundary Condition Between Two Multiplying Media....Pages 513-519
On Variations of the Power Output in a Running Pile....Pages 520-528
Use of the Pile Oscillator for the Measurement of Pile Constants....Pages 529-539
Effect of Small Perturbations on Pile Period....Pages 540-552
Efficiency of Control Rods Which Absorb Only Thermal Neutrons....Pages 553-567
Atomic Energy....Pages 570-574
Back Matter....Pages 621-621
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Impact of the Developments in Atomic Energy on the Sciences....Pages 575-582
Ziele und Probleme von Reaktoren....Pages 583-594
Longer Range View of Nuclear Energy....Pages 595-598
Our Needs for Energy and Ways to Satisfy Them....Pages 599-620
Back Matter....Pages 621-621
Front Matter....Pages 623-623
The Wigner Patents....Pages 625-808