Atomic And Nuclear Physics

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Nuclear Reactor Physics

THIS CHAPTER COVERS…

• The basic types of nuclear reactors.

• Uranium enrichment and the simple reactor designs.

• The nuclear reactor working and their classification on the basis of various parameters.

• Energy-based classification of neutrons and the diffusion of thermal neutrons from a plane source and a point source.

• The thermal diffusion length.

• The Fermi Age equation for fast neutron diffusion.

• The application of diffusion equation to determine the bare reactor critical size.

• The solution of Fermi Age equation for thermal neutron source.

• The critical equation and the reactor buckling.

• The non-leakage factors and geometrical buckling.

• The critical equations for parallelepiped reactor, spherical reactor and cylindrical ...