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This book contains engineering assessments of the options for replacing the existing, aged, fossil-fired power stations with renewable, gas-fired, or nuclear plants. It also assesses the engineering of renewable sources for commercial power generation and discusses the important aspects of the design, operation, and safety of nuclear stations. It includes: practical engineering assessments for geothermal, hydro, solar, tidal, and wind generation in terms of the available data on cost, safety, environmental damage, capacity factor reliability, and grid compatibility, with some nuclear comparisons; Eigenvalues and real frequency response functions to assess the stabilities of reactor power, two-phase channel flow, and a Grid network; a non-linear control strategy with simulation results for a Design Base Accident scenario; original analyses with experimental validation of molten fuel coolant interactions and aircraft impacts on rigid structures; analysis of the circumstances that led to the Fukushima disaster. -- [Edited summary from book]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Energy Sources, Grid Compatibility, Economics, and the Environment
• 1.1. Background
• 1.2. Geothermal Energy
• 1.3. Hydroelectricity
• 1.4. Solar Energy
• 1.5. Tidal Energy
• 1.6. Wind Energy
• 1.7. Fossil-Fired Power Generation
• 1.8. Nuclear Generation and Reactor Choice
• 1.9. Prologue
• 2. Adequacy of Linear Models and Nuclear Reactor Dynamics
• 2.1. Linear Models, Stability, and Nyquist Theorems
• 2.2. Mathematical Descriptions of a Neutron Population
• 2.3. Point Model of Reactor Kinetics
• 2.4. Temperature and Other Operational Feedback Effects
• 2.5. Reactor Control, its Stable Period and Re-equilibrium
• 3. Some Power Station and Grid Control Problems
• 3.1. Steam Drum Water-Level Control
• 3.2. Flow Stability in Parallel Boiling Channels
• 3.3. Grid Power Systems and Frequency Control

• 3.4. Grid Disconnection for a Nuclear Station with Functioning "Scram"
• 4. Some Aspects of Nuclear Accidents and Their Mitigation
• 4.1. Reactor Accident Classification by Probabilities
• 4.2. Hazards from an Atmospheric Release of Fission Products
• 4.3. Mathematical Risk, Event Trees, and Human Attitudes
• 4.4. Farmer-Beattie Siting Criterion
• 4.5. Examples of Potential Severe Accidents in Fast Reactors and PWRs with their Consequences
• 5. Molten Fuel Coolant Interactions: Analyses and Experiments
• 5.1. History and a Mixing Analysis
• 5.2. Coarse Mixtures and Contact Modes in Severe Nuclear Accidents
• 5.3. Some Physics of a Vapor Film and its Interface
• 5.4. Heat Transfer from Contiguous Melt
• 5.5. Mass Transfer at a Liquid-Vapor Interface and the Condensation Coefficient
• 5.6. Kinetics, Heat Diffusion, a Triggering Simulation, and Reactor Safety
• 5.7. Melt Fragmentation, Heat Transfer, Debris Sizes, and MFCI Yield
• 5.8. Features of the Bubex Code and an MFTF Simulation
• 6. Primary Containment Integrity and Impact Studies
• 6.1. Primary Containment Integrity
• 6.2. Pi-Theorem, Scale Models, and Replicas
• 6.3. Experimental Impact Facilities
• 6.4. Computational Techniques and an Aircraft Impact
• 7. Natural Circulation, Passive Safety Systems, and Debris-Bed Cooling
• 7.1. Natural Convection in Nuclear Plants
• 7.2. Passive Safety Systems for Water Reactors
• 7.3. Core Debris-Bed Cooling in Water Reactors
• 7.4. Epilogue.

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Author/Creator:

Knowles, J. B. (James Brian), 1936-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Nuclear electric power: safety, operation, and control aspects [by Knowles, J.B.]

Subjects:

Nuclear power plants

Nuclear reactors — Safety measures

Nuclear reactors — Control

Nuclear energy

Electric power systems

General Notes:

"Published simultaneously in Canada"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

TK1078 .K59 2014

ISBNs:

1118660390 (electronic bk.)
9781118660393 (electronic bk.)
9781118551707 (cloth) [Invalid]
1118551702 (cloth) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1018058396

Other Control Numbers:

670047 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11406437