Nuclear principles in engineering

Tatjana Jevremovic (auth.)9780387856070, 0387856072

Nuclear engineering plays an important role in various industrial, health care, and energy processes. Modern physics has generated its fundamental principles. A growing number of students and practicing engineers need updated material to access the technical language and content of nuclear principles.

Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and illustrative computer applications, Tatjana Jevremovic covers nuclear principles as they relate to:
Nuclear powerNuclear imagingAerospace and propulsion engineeringPower production propulsionElectric generators for space applicationsDiagnostics and treatment in medicineHomeland security Health physicsRadiation treatment and imagingRadiation shielding systems
“Nuclear Principles in Engineering, Second Edition” is written for students, engineers, physicians and scientists who need up-to-date information in basic nuclear concepts and calculation methods.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages i-xxii
Nuclear Concepts….Pages 1-8
Atomic Theory….Pages 9-70
Nuclear Theory….Pages 71-113
Duality of Nature….Pages 115-167
Radioactive Decay….Pages 169-216
Interactions of Radiation with Matter….Pages 217-280
Neutron Physics….Pages 281-376
Neutron Transport….Pages 377-489
Nuclear Reactor Control….Pages 491-518
Back Matter….Pages 519-546