How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor
Have you ever wondered how a nuclear power station works? This book will answer that question. It’ll take you on a journey from the science behind nuclear reactors, through their start-up, operation and shutdown. Along the way it covers a bit of the
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Colin Tucker
How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor
Colin Tucker Wickham Market, Suffolk, UK
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Preface and Acknowledgements
Have you ever wondered how a nuclear power station works? This book will show you, by asking you to imagine that you’re a trainee reactor operator on a Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR), the most common type of nuclear reactor in the world. It’ll take you on a journey from the science behind nuclear reactors, through their start-up, operation and shutdown. Along the way, it covers a bit of the engineering, reactor history, different kinds of reactors and what can go wrong with them. This book will show you how reactors are kept safe, and what it feels like to drive one. So what inspired me to write this book? It was a conversation about a book entitled How to Drive a Steam Locomotive (by Brian Hollingsworth). I was describing to a friend how the author puts the reader on the footplate of a locomotive and then gradually introduces them to the controls in front of them; what they each do; and what might go wrong. By the end of the book, it felt like you were really there. The conversation ended with me complaining about the lack of any similar book describing nuclear reactors. I have searched for such a book, but have found that most concentrate on energ
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