Nuclear power plants / George Petridis and Dimitrios Nicolau, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petridis, Georgios K.

Nicolau, Dimitrios.

Series:

Physics research and technology.

Nuclear materials and disaster research

Physics research and technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear power plants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores nuclear power plants which stand on the border between humanity's greatest hopes and its deepest fears for the future. Atomic energy offers a clean energy alternative that frees us from the shackles of fossil fuel dependence, while also having lived through the disasters of the quake-ruptured Japanese power plant now spewing radioactive steam, and the dead zone surrounding Chernobyl's concrete sarcophagus. Topics discussed include the investigation of materials and components obtained from nuclear power plants decommissioning; high-temperature gas-cooled reactors; the impact and effects of the ongoing discussion on the nuclear phase-out in Germany; modeling of corrosion product activity in primary circuits of pressurized water reactors and the fundamental stability analysis of hypothetical boiling and pressurized water reactors.

Contents:

High temperature gas-cooled reactors / Piyush Sabharwall and Eung Soo Kim

Advanced nuclear reactors and passive safety / Tim Abram and Ayah E. Elshahat

The influence of quantum aspect to artificial ant colony on nuclear reload optimization problem / Márcio Henrique da Silva and Roberto Schirru

Nuclear power plants in liberalised power markets : the ongoing discussion on nuclear phase-out in Germany and its impact on the power market / Sven Bode and Franziska Teichmann

Considerations on the investigation of materials and components obtained from NPP decommissioning / Massimo Rogante

Modeling of corrosion product activity in primary circuits of pressurized water reactors / Nasir M. Mirza and Sikander M. Mirza

Fundamental stability analysis of hypothetical boiling and pressurized water reactors / Robert Farkas and Lixuan Lu

Dynamical modeling of safeguard using power productions in the nuclear power plants (NPPs) / Tae-Ho Woo

Corrosion of the secondary side steam generator in the presence of impurities / Dumitra Lucan

Computational intelligence applied to the identification of accidents of the Brazilian PWR nuclear power plant / Andressa dos Santos Nicolau and Roberto Schirru.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61470-285-3

OCLC:

830627710