Nuclear reactor physics is the core discipline of nuclear engineering. Nuclear reactors now account for a significant portion of the electrical power generated worldwide, and new power reactors with improved fuel cycles are being developed. At the same time, the past few decades have seen an ever-increasing number of industrial, medical, military, and research applications for nuclear reactors. The second edition of this successful comprehensive textbook and reference on basic and advanced nuclear reactor physics has been completely updated, revised and enlarged to include the latest developments.
About the Author
Weston M. Stacey is Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His career spans more than 40 years of research and teaching in nuclear reactor physics, fusion plasma physics and fusion and fission reactor conceptual design. He led the IAEA INTOR Workshop (1979-88) that led to the present ITER project, for which he was awarded the US Department of Energy Distinguished Associate Award and two Department of Energy Certificates of Appreciation. Professor Stacey is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and of the American Physical Society. He is the recipient of several prizes, among them the American Nuclear Society Seaborg Medal for Nuclear Research and the Wigner Reactor Physics Award, and the author of six previous books and numerous research papers.
New to Edition
* completely revised and corrected * section 6.9 (Transmutation of Spent Nuclear Fuel) expanded * section 7.9 (Advanced Reactors) rewritten and extended to include descriptions of Generation IV reactors now being intensively studied internationally * section 7.10 (Nuclear Reactor Analysis) rewritten to describe some of the major computer codes used in nuclear analysis of reactors * new section 3.12 on 'Transport Theory' added to provide a simple introduction to Pn, Sn, and collision probability transport methods * appendices D and F extended for the benefit of the reader who encounters LaPlace transforms and Bessel functions for the first time
From reviews of the first edition: "The first comprehensive book on the subject in 25 years." La Doc STI
"I hope that the publication of this impressive text, whose strength lies in its breadth and it modernity, will accompany a renewed interest in nuclear power expressed through fission reactors." Physics Today
