Physics and Technology of Nuclear Materials

Content: 
Other Pergamon Titles of Interest, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages v-vi
Introduction, Pages 1-4
CHAPTER 1 - Elements of Nuclear Reactor Physics, Pages 5-35
CHAPTER 2 - Structure and Properties of Materials, Pages 36-99
CHAPTER 3 - Fuel Materials, Pages 100-132
CHAPTER 4 - Structural Materials, Pages 133-168
CHAPTER 5 - Moderator Materials, Pages 169-206
CHAPTER 6 - Materials for Reactor Reactivity Control, Pages 207-228
CHAPTER 7 - Coolant Materials, Pages 229-254
CHAPTER 8 - Shielding Materials, Pages 255-275
CHAPTER 9 - Nuclear Fuel Elements, Pages 276-317
CHAPTER 10 - Nuclear Material Recovery from Irradiated Fuel and Recycling, Pages 318-366
CHAPTER 11 - Quality Control of Nuclear Materials, Pages 367-405
CHAPTER 12 - Materials for Fusion Reactors, Pages 406-457
APPENDIX 1 - Equivalence of some usual measurements units to those in the International System (IS), Pages 459-461
APPENDIX 2 - Characteristics of major reactor types, Page 462
APPENDIX 3 - Fuel material enrichment for various types of reactors, Page 463
APPENDIX 4 - Electronic configuration of elements, Pages 464-468
APPENDIX 5 - Some properties of elements, Pages 469-471
APPENDIX 6 - Irradiation testing of structural materials for CANDU — 600 nuclear power station, Pages 472-474
APPENDIX 7 - Neutron cross-sections, Pages 475-489
APPENDIX 8 - I. QUALITY REQUIREMENTS FOR HEAVY WATER USED AS MODERATOR IN NUCLEAR REACTORS, Pages 490-499
APPENDIX 9 - The main fission products of thermal neutrons-irradiated uranium, which determine the fuel radioactivity, Page 500
APPENDIX 10 - Crystalline structures and magnetic properties of some uranium compounds, Pages 501-502
APPENDIX 11 - Properties of materials, of chief interest in fuel element design, Pages 503-508
APPENDIX 12 - Nuclear reactors types and net electric power, as registered at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Pages 509-512
APPENDIX 13 - Hydrometallurgy of uranium, Pages 513-515
APPENDIX 14 - Nuclear fuel cycles, Pages 516-521
Index, Pages 523-528