The Nuclear Fuel Cycle
From Ore to Waste
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 September 1996
- ISBN 9780198565406
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages342 pages
- Size 241x161x23 mm
- Weight 685 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece, halftones, line drawings, tables 0
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Short description:
Nuclear power issues have long been controversial, and often discussed from an inadequate or mistaken understanding. This book is a factual description of the whole fuel cycle, with individual chapters on specific topics from uranium mining, through the manufacture and use of fuel, to recycled products, waste disposal and progress towards a cleared site. Basic principles, environmental radioactivity (both natural and artificial) and provisions for safety are also covered.
The level is pitched at a general scientific readership and although the viewpoint is naturally pro-nuclear, the aim is to inform rather than persuade. Where options are disputed, as whether fuel should be reprocessed or discarded directrly, both are described. Current practices, and the reasons for them are described and the final chapter suggests possible changes for the future.
Long description:
Nuclear power issues have long been controversial, and often discussed from an inadequate or mistaken understanding. This book is a factual description of the whole fuel cycle, with individual chapters on specific topics from uranium mining, through the manufacture and use of fuel, to recycled products, waste disposal and progress towards a cleared site. Basic principles, environmental radioactivity (both natural and artificial) and provisions for safety are also covered.
The level is pitched at a general scientific readership not necessarily familiar with the concepts, and although the viewpoint is naturally pro-nuclear, the aim is to inform rather than persuade. Where options are disputed, as whether used fuel should br reprocessed or discarded directly, both are described.
The account is mainly of current practices, with the reasons for them. A final chapter suggests possible changes in the near or more distant future.
Different parts of the nuclear cycle are explained clearly and interestingly, with enough technical content to satisfy readers modestly familiar with scientific terminology but not the minute detail of concern only to experts.............The book achieves its purpose convincingly, to provide an overall survey of the nuclear industry understandable to readers with some background in science.....................a readable and most interesting account of one important means of helping to satisfy the world's present and future energy needs
Table of Contents:
Basic principles
Mining and milling uranium ore
Fuel fabrication
Isotopic enrichment of uranium
Power reactors
Transport and storage of irradiated fuel
Reprocessing irradiated fuel
Recycling uranium and plutonium
Waste management
Disposal of fuel or solid wastes
Environmental radioactivity
Decommissioning nuclear facilities
Management of safety
Future perspectives
Glossary
Appendix I, II, III, & IV
Index
