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A NEW BOOK: 'LIGHT-WATER REACTOR MATERIALS'

  • OLANDER DONALD R. (Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California) ;
  • MOTTA ARTHUR T. (Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Penn State University)
  • Published : 2005.08.01
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Abstract

The contents of a new book currently in preparation are described. The dearth of books in the field of nuclear materials has left both students in nuclear materials classes and professionals in the same field without a resource for the broad fundamentals of this important sub-discipline of nuclear engineering. The new book is devoted entirely to materials problems in the core of light-water reactors, from the pressure vessel into the fuel. Key topics deal with the $UO_2$ fuel, Zircaloy cladding, stainless steel, and of course, water. The restriction to LWR materials does not mean a short monograph; the enormous quantity of experimental and theoretical work over the past 50 years on these materials presents a challenge of culling the most important features and explaining them in the simplest quantitative fashion. Moreover, LWRs will probably be the sole instrument of the return of nuclear energy in electric power production for the next decade or so. By that time, a new book will be needed.

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