Nuclear Energy: Principles, Practices, and Prospects

This second edition represents an extensive revision of the first edition, - though the motivation for the book and the intended audiences, as described inthepreviouspreface,remainthesame. Theoveralllengthhasbeenincreased substantially, with revised or expanded discussions of a number of topics, - cluding Yucca Mountain repository plans, new reactor designs, health effects of radiation, costs of electricity, and dangers from terrorism and weapons p- liferation. The overall status of nuclear...