出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2023年09月25日
This open access book is based on the conference organised by Accademia dei Lincei and the US National Academy of Sciences and supported by the Italian Ministero degli Affari Esteri. It was attended……続きを見る
This open access book is a pedagogical text on nuclear reactor experiments, covering almost all the experiments that can be carried out at the University Training Reactor, Kindai University (UTR-KIN……続きを見る
This open access book is a pedagogical, examples-based guide to using the Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP®) code for nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation applications. The MCNP code, general-purpos……続きを見る
This book covers seismic probabilistic risk assessment (S-PRA) and related studies which have become more important to increase the safety of nuclear facilities against earthquakes and tsunamis in t……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2022年05月01日
This open access book examines key aspects of international cooperation to enhance nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and nonproliferation, thereby assisting in development and maintenance of the……続きを見る
This book covers essential aspects of transmutation technologies, highlighting especially the advances in Japan. The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has caused us to focu……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2022年04月29日
This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, and derive……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2022年04月26日
This book focuses on nuclear engineering education in the post-Fukushima era. It was edited by the organizers of the summer school held in August 2011 in University of California, Berkeley, as part ……続きを見る
This open access book is a unique compilation of experimental benchmark analyses of the accelerator-driven system (ADS) at the Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA) on the most recent advances i……続きを見る
This open access book examines key aspects of international cooperation to enhance nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and non-proliferation, thereby assisting in development and maintenance of th……続きを見る
Our world is facing an energy crisis like no other as the global population continues to grow at an unprecedented rate and nonrenewable energy production is becoming more and more unsustainable. Con……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2022年05月02日
This second open access volume of the handbook series deals with detectors, large experimental facilities and data handling, both for accelerator and non-accelerator based experiments. It also cover……続きを見る
This book provides comprehensive research findings related to the environmental monitoring of radiation, levels of radioactive nuclides in various environments and dose estimation in residents after……続きを見る
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'Superb, enthralling and necessarily terrifying . . . every step feels spring-loaded with tension... extraordinary.' The New York Times
The story of Chernobyl is more c……続きを見る
This book discusses advanced Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) as a way to provide safe, clean, and affordable nuclear power options. The advanced SMRs currently under development in the U.S. represent ……続きを見る
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著者:John Twidell
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2021年11月30日
Renewable Energy Resources is a numerate and quantitative text. It covers the many renewables technologies implemented worldwide by harnessing sustainable resources, mitigating pollution and climate……続きを見る
In 2014, France lost part of the control of its nuclear power plants to the United States. Frédéric Pierucci, former senior executive of one of Alstom's power company subsidiaries, found himself at ……続きを見る
Thermal Power Plants: Modeling, Control, and Efficiency Improvement explains how to solve highly complex industry problems regarding identification, control, and optimization through integrating con……続きを見る
著者:Thomas R. Wellock
出版社: University of California Press
発売日: 2021年03月23日
Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear experts have labored to imagine the unimaginable and prevent it. They confronted a deceptively simple question: When is a reactor “safe enough” to adequatel……続きを見る
Nuclear power is not an option for the future but an absolute necessity. Global threats of climate change and lethal air pollution, killing millions each year, make it clear that nuclear and renewab……続きを見る
Materials Science and Fuel Technologies of Uranium and Plutonium Mixed Oxide offers a deep understanding of MOX properties for nuclear fuels that will be useful for performance evaluation. It also r……続きを見る
著者:Serhii Plokhy
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2022年05月17日
A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “definitive” (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly.
Almost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in an……続きを見る
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2018
'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politi……続きを見る
With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about ……続きを見る
Enrico Fermi : Developers of the First Atomic Bomb (A Short Biography for Children) Physicist Enrico Fermi built the prototype of a nuclear reactor and worked on the Manhattan Project to develop th……続きを見る
In our power-hungry world, all the talk about energyーwhat’s safe and what’s risky, what’s clean and what’s dirty, what’s cheap and what’s easyーtends to generate more heat than light. What, Juliann……続きを見る
2011: The hidden truth behind the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. As a military and nuclear weapons researcher, the author examines the cause of the Unit 4 reactor building explosion. He gathers……続きを見る
Stephen McDonald offers a basic understanding of the goals and practices by which the federal government leases its fossil fuel resources and how these practices affect the economy. Originally publi……続きを見る
On a calm afternoon in March 2011, a force-nine earthquake jolted the Pacific Ocean seabed east of Japan. Forty minutes later, a tsunami 21 metres high crashed onto the coast of Fukushima, Miyagi, a……続きを見る