Heat Transfer In Nuclear Reactor Safety

Author : Robert Masterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138035379
Total Pages : 1354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics written by Robert Masterson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nuclear power industry in the world today -- The pressurized water reactor -- The boiling water reactor -- Fast reactors, gas reactors, and military reactors -- Thermal energy production in nuclear power plants -- The laws of thermodynamics -- Thermodynamic properties and equations of state -- The nuclear steam supply system -- Reactor thermal cycles -- The laws of heat transfer -- Heat removal from nuclear fuel rods -- Time dependent nuclear heat transfer -- Nuclear reactor fluid mechanics -- Fluid statics and fluid dynamics -- The conservation equations of fluid mechanics -- Single phase flow in nuclear power plants -- Laminar and turbulent flow with friction -- Core and fuel assembly fluid flow -- Reactor coolants, coolant pumps, and power turbines -- Single phase nuclear heat transfer -- Correlations for single phase nuclear heat transfer -- Natural convection in nuclear power plants -- Fundamentals of two phase flow in nuclear power plants -- Two phase nuclear heat transfer -- Heat transfer correlations for advanced two phase nuclear heat transfer -- Core temperature fields -- Nuclear hot channel factors, the critical heat flux, and the dnbr -- Thermal design limits, operating limits, and safety limits -- Equilibrium and non-equilibrium flows, critical flow, and choke flow -- Reactor accidents, dbas, and locas -- Flow oscillations, density waves, and hydrodynamic instabilities -- Containment buildings and their function -- particle transport and entrainment during reactor accidents -- Response of a containment building to a reactor LOCA.