Nuclear reactor physics

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NUCLEAR REACTOR PHYSICS......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 2
PREFACE......Page 20
PART 1 Basic Reactor Physics......Page 24
1 Neutron Nuclear Reactions......Page 26
2 Neutron Chain Fission Reactors......Page 58
3 Neutron Diffusion Theory......Page 68
4 Neutron Energy Distribution......Page 118
5 Nuclear Reactor Dynamics......Page 162
6 Fuel Burnup......Page 218
7 Nuclear Power Reactors......Page 266
8 Reactor Safety......Page 294
PART 2 Advanced Reactor Physics......Page 316
9 Neutron Transport Theory......Page 318
10 Neutron Slowing Down......Page 402
1 1 Resonance Absorption......Page 434
12 Neutron Therrnalization......Page 474
13 Perturbation and Variational Methods......Page 504
14 Homogenization......Page 536
15 Nodal and Synthesis Methods......Page 564
16 Space-Time Neutron Kinetics......Page 622
APPENDIX A Physical Constants and Nuclear Data......Page 694
APPENDIX B Some Useful Mathematical Formulas......Page 700
APPENDIX C Step Functions, Delta Functions,and Other Functions......Page 702
APPENDIX D Some Properties of Special Functions......Page 706
APPENDIX E Introduction to Matrices and Matrix Algebra......Page 712
APPENDIX F Introduction to Laplace Transforms......Page 716
INDEX......Page 722