NEUTRON PHYSICS FOR NUCLEAR REACTORS: UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS BY ENRICO FERMI - Hardcover

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9789814291224: NEUTRON PHYSICS FOR NUCLEAR REACTORS: UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS BY ENRICO FERMI
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9814291226 ISBN 13: 9789814291224
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2010

Synopsis

This unique volume gives an accurate and very detailed description of the functioning and operation of basic nuclear reactors, as emerging from yet unpublished papers by Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi.In the first part, the entire course of lectures on Neutron Physics delivered by Fermi at Los Alamos is reported, according to the version made by Anthony P French. Here, the fundamental physical phenomena are described very clearly and comprehensively, giving the appropriate physics grounds for the functioning of nuclear piles. In the second part, all the patents issued by Fermi (and coworkers) on the functioning, construction and operation of several different kinds of nuclear reactors are reported. Here, the main engineering problems are encountered and solved by employing simple and practical methods, which are described in detail.This seminal work mainly caters to students, teachers and researchers working in nuclear physics and engineering, but it is of invaluable interest to historians of physics too, since the material presented here is entirely novel.

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This unique volume gives an accurate and very detailed description of the functioning and operation of basic nuclear reactors, as emerging from yet unpublished papers by Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi.In the first part, the entire course of lectures on Neutron Physics delivered by Fermi at Los Alamos is reported, according to the version made by Anthony P French. Here, the fundamental physical phenomena are described very clearly and comprehensively, giving the appropriate physics grounds for the functioning of nuclear piles. In the second part, all the patents issued by Fermi (and coworkers) on the functioning, construction and operation of several different kinds of nuclear reactors are reported. Here, the main engineering problems are encountered and solved by employing simple and practical methods, which are described in detail.This seminal work mainly caters to students, teachers and researchers working in nuclear physics and engineering, but it is of invaluable interest to historians of physics too, since the material presented here is entirely novel.

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Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9814291226
ISBN 13 
9789814291224
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
665
Editor
Esposito Salvatore, Pisanti Ofelia
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