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Sustainable nuclear power /
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 po...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Academic Press,
�2007.
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| Colección: | Sustainable world series.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART I
- Energy Sources and Their Potential
- Introduction
- History of Energy
- Energy Reserves and Renewable Energy Sources
- Emerging Fuel Technologies and Factors Driving Technology
- PART II
- Energy Conversion and Utilization
- History of Conversion of Thermal Energy to Work
- Transportation
- Production of Electricity
- Energy in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
- PART III
- Energineering of Nuclear Power Processes
- Atomic Processes and Heat Transfer in Nuclear Power
- Safe Plant Design
- Recycling and Waste Handling for Spent Nuclear Fuel
- For-Profit Industrial Drivers
- References
- Appendices.
- Introduction.
- The history of energy.
- Energy reserves and renewable energy sources.
- Emerging fuel technologies and policies impacting these technologies.
- History of conversion of thermal energy to work.
- Transportation.
- Production of electricity.
- Energy in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.
- Electrical power as sustainable energy.
- Atomic processes.
- Recycling and waste handling for spent nuclear fuel.
- Nuclear power plant design.
- For-profit industrial drivers.