Nuclear Physics category: 811 books
by Galen J. Suppes, Truman Storvick
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Sustainable Nuclear Power provides non-nuclear engineers, scientists and energy planners with the necessary information to understand and utilize the major advances in the field. The book demonstrates that nuclear fission technology has the abundance and attainability to provide centuries of safe...
Extreme States of Matter
High Energy Density Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
With its many beautiful colour pictures, this book gives fascinating insights into the unusual forms and behaviour of matter under extremely high pressures and temperatures. These extreme states are generated, among other things, by strong shock, detonation and electric explosion waves, dense laser...
by Yican Wu
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
This book provides a systematic and comprehensive introduction to fusion neutronics, covering all key topics from the fundamental theories and methodologies, as well as a wide range of fusion system designs and experiments. It is the first-ever book focusing on the subject of fusion neutronics research.
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Nuclear Mavericks
A Biographical Compilation of the Men & Women Who Shaped the Nuclear Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Nuclear technologies play a critical role in many fields, including space exploration, the defense industry, medical diagnosis and treatment, energy generation, and next-generation manufacturing. Having a technically skilled workforce that understands these technologies and can apply them in situ is...
by Bruce Cameron Reed
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
The development of atomic bombs under the auspices of the U. S. Army’s Manhattan Project during World War II is considered to be the outstanding news story of the twentieth century. In this book, a physicist and expert on the history of the Project presents a comprehensive overview of this momentous...
Genius in the Shadows
A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
“Leaves no doubt that this bizarre Hungarian was one of the great minds of our time, or any time . . . A wonderful book about this endlessly fascinating man” (The New York Times Book Review).
When we think about the creation of the atom bomb, we may think of Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi,...
Chernobyl
The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of...
The Neutron's Children
Nuclear Engineers and the Shaping of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The first nuclear engineers emerged from the Manhattan Project in the USA, UK and Canada, but remained hidden behind security for a further decade. Cosseted and cloistered by their governments, they worked to explore applications of atomic energy at a handful of national labs. This unique bottom-up...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This is the first in a series of three proceedings of the 20th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC). This volume covers the topics of Safety and Security, Public Acceptance and Nuclear Education, as well as Economics and Reducing Cost. As one in the most important and influential conference...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This is the third in a series of three proceedings of the 20th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC). This volume covers the topics of Power Reactor and New Buildings, Waste Management, Acquiring Medical and Biological Benefits and Student program. As one in the most important and influential...
by A.G.W. Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
"The content of this work, which was independently presented by Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle in 1957, represents one of the major advances in the natural sciences in the twentieth century. It effectively answered, in one fell swoop, several interrelated questions that humans have been...
XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium
Proceedings, Guwahati, India, December 8 – 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
These proceedings gather invited and contributed talks presented at the XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, which was held at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in December 2014. The contributions cover many of the most active research areas in particle physics, namely (i) Electroweak...
by Jean Louis Bobin
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
The book is a presentation of the basic principles and main achievements in the field of nuclear fusion. It encompasses both magnetic and inertial confinements plus a few exotic mechanisms for nuclear fusion. The state-of-the-art regarding thermonuclear reactions, hot plasmas, tokamaks, laser-driven...
Laser Assisted Nuclear Decay Spectroscopy
A New Method for Studying Neutron-Deficient Francium Isotopes
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This work details an application of collinear resonance ionization spectroscopy for the separation of short-lived isomeric states and their subsequent study with decay spectroscopy. It reports the successful construction of a novel decay spectroscopy apparatus that can operate at pressures below...