Nuclear engineering

World Nuclear Industy Handbook 1993 (aimual issuance). Nuclear Engineering International, Sutton, Surrey, U.K. 

R. A. Knief, Nuclear Engineering—Theog and Technology of Commercial NuclearPower Hemisphere Pubhshing Corp, Washington, D.C., 1992. 

A. Amendola, Uncertainties in Systems Reliability Modeling Insight Gained Through European Benchmark Exercises, Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 93, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, Elolland, 1986, pp. 215-225. 

Kececioglu, D. 1972 Reliability Analysis of Mechanical Components and Systems. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 19, 259-290. 

S. Sato, K. Hirakawa, A. Kurumada, S. Kimura and E. Yasuda, Degradation of Fracture Mechanics Properties of Reactor Graphite Due to Bum-off, Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol 118, 1990, pp 227 241... 

Of high purity, zirconium is a white, soft ductile and malleable metal. At 99% purity, when obtained at high temperatures it is hard and brittle. The rapid development of production techniques of zirconium has resulted because of its suitability for nuclear engineering equipment. 

Etherington, H., editor, 1958, Nuclear Engineering Handbook, McGraw-Hill, NY. 

Gregory, W. S., et. aL, 1991, Fires in Large Scale Ventilation Systems, Nuclear Engineering Design, 125, pg 403-410. 

O Donnell, E, P 1982, Safely Goals and Risk Analysis Status of Regulatory Development, Joint ASME/ANS Nuclear Engineering Conference, July. 

I am a physicist who switched to nuclear engineering for my Ph D. My introduction to PSA was as an original participant in the Reactor Safety Study in 1972. Material for this book was first gathered in 1974 for a workshop on what to expect in WASH-1400 (the results of the Reactor Safety Study). Materials were gathered over the years for EPRI, Savannah River Laboratory, and other workshops. A culmination was in 1988 with "Probabilistic Risk Assessment in the Nuclear Power Industry" with Robert Hall as coauthor. This book updates these materials and adds material on PSA in the chemical process industry. I prepared the material for printing using a word processor... 

Nuclear Plant Reliability Data System Nuclear Engineering data from all U.S. NPP (currently 91 plants) failure data describing 44,000 events Voluntary reporting of engineering information and failures for selected systems and components as defined in a reportable scope manual 64. 

Apostolalds, G., S. Kaplan, B. J. Garrick, and R. J. Duphily. Data Specialization for Plant Specific Risk Studies. Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 56, 1980. 

Kaplan, S. On the Use of Data and Judgment in Probabilistic Risk and Safety Analysis. Paper presented at the Nuclear Engineering and Design International Post-Conference Seminar, August 26-27, SMiRT 8, Brussels, Belgium, 1985. 

Similar situations occur with curricula in environmental engineering and in nuclear engineering. 

In the nuclear engineering field special magnesium-base alloys are extensively used as canning materials for uranium in gas-cooled reactors. 

In common with magnesium and zirconium the metal has little tendency to capture neutrons, and there was promise that a significant industrial use would arise in nuclear engineering, but after extensive trial in gas cooled reactors, its ultimate commercial employment in that context was also deemed inappropriate. 

The possible employment of beryllium in nuclear engineering and in the aircraft industry has encouraged considerable investigation into its oxidation characteristics. In particular, behaviour in carbon dioxide up to temperatures of 1 000°C has been extensively studied and it has been shown that up to a temperature of 600°C the formation of beryllium oxide follows a parabolic law but with continued exposure break-away oxidation occurs in a similar fashion to that described for zirconium. The presence of moisture in the carbon dioxide enhances the break-away reaction . It has been suggested that film growth proceeds by cation diffusion and that oxidation takes place at the oxide/air interface. ... 

The growth of nuclear engineering with its specialised demands for materials having a low neutron absorption coupled with adequate strength and corrosion resistance at elevated temperatures, has necessitated the production of zirconium in relatively large commercial quantities. This specific demand has resulted in development of specially purified zirconium, and certain zirconium alloys, for use in particular types of nuclear reactor. 

It has already been indicated that the principal use for zirconium is in the field of nuclear engineering. The very nature of this application demands the lowest possible corrosion rate, and this has necessitated a great deal of investigation into the oxidation rate of zirconium, when exposed to hot water, steam and carbon dioxide. 

Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84102, Israel... 

V. Gerasimov and A. Monakhov, Nuclear Engineering Materials, Mir Publishers, Moscow, 1983. 

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