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Title Nuclear fuels : manufacturing processes, forms, and safety / Antoine Lesage and Jérôme Tondreau, editors
Published New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2010]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Energy science, engineering and technology
Energy science, engineering and technology series.
Contents NUCLEAR FUELS: MANUFACTURING PROCESSES, FORMS AND SAFETY; NUCLEAR FUELS: MANUFACTURING PROCESSES, FORMS AND SAFETY; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: TRANSIENT DIFFUSION IN NUCLEAR FUELS PROCESSES; ABSTRACT; NOMENCLATURE; GREEK; 1.0. INTRODUCTION; 2.0. THEORY; 2.1. Fick's Laws of Molecular Diffusion; 2.2. Generalized Fick's Laws of Molecular Diffusion; 2.3. Derivation of Generalized Fick's Law of Diffusion; 3.0. SIMULTANEOUS FAST REACTIONS AND GENERALIZED FICK'SDIFFUSION; 3.1 Solution by Method of Laplace Transforms
3.2. Generalized Fick's Diffusion with Fast Chemical Reaction in Infinite Catalyst in Cylindrical Coordinates3.3 Finite Speed Diffusion with Fast Chemical Reaction in Infinite Catalyst in Spherical Coordinates; 3.4 Taitel Paradox and Final Time Condition; 3.5. Relativistic Transformation of Coordinates; 3.6 Periodic Boundary Condition; 3.7. Finite Cylinder at Constant Wall Concentration; 3. 8. Finite Sphere with Constant Wall Concentration; 3.10. Critical Radii of Nuclear Fuel Rod Neither Less than the CyclingLimit Nor Greater than the Shape Limit
3.11. Cooling of Nuclear Fuel Rods -- Temperature Dependent Heat Source3.12 Critical Point of Zero Transfer; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: USE OF DICYCLOHEXANO-SUBSTITUTED CROWN ETHERS FOR LIQUID RADIOACTIVE WASTE REPROCESSING: PRESENT-DAY TRENDS; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PURIFICATION AND ISOMER SEPARATION; 3. RADIATION CHEMISTRY AND RADIATION RESISTANCE OF CROWN ETHERS; 3.1. Intermediate Products of Radiolysis; 3.2. Final Radiolysis Products of Crown-Containing Systems; 3.3. Effect of Ionizing Radiation on Properties of Crown-Containing Systems; 4. LABORATORY SCALE AND PILOT TESTING
5. CONCLUSIONREFERENCES; Chapter 3: HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL: A GLOBAL CONCERN; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; The Actors; National Efforts; International Conventions Governing Radioactive Waste Disposal; IGOs and NGOs; The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA); The United Nations; Professional Organizations; Environmental Organizations; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 4: THE RUPTURE OF CARBON STEEL PIPES THAT TRANSPORT HIGH-TEMPERATURE AND HIGH-PRESSURE PURE WATER IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; 1. THE HISTORY OF EROSION-CORROSION
1.1 Erosion-Corrosion in Seawater1.2 Wall Thinning of Carbon Steel Pipes in Deoxidized Pure Water; 1.3. Computer Programs Estimating the Rate of Flow-Accelerated Corrosion(FAC); 2. THEORIES OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION; 2.1. Micro-Cell Model for Uniform Corrosion; 2.2. Potential vs. Current Density Diagram for Uniform Corrosion; 2.3. Theory of Macro-Cell Corrosion for Localized Corrosion; 3. WALL THINNING OF CARBON STEEL PIPES IN POWER PLANTS; 3.1. Case Studies of Wall Thinning; 3.2. Categories of Wall Thinning; 3.3. Experimental Results of Laboratory Corrosion Tests on Carbon Steels
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Nuclear fuels.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Power Resources -- Nuclear.
Nuclear fuels
Form Electronic book
Author Lesage, Antoine, editor
Tondreau, Jérôme, editor
LC no. 2020679779
ISBN 9781621004264
1621004260