Neutron Slowing Down and Thermalization
The theory behind the generation of thermal cross sections is presented, concentrating on the phonon expansion method. Examples are given for graphite, water, heavy water, and zirconium hydride. The graphite example demonstrates incoherent inelastic scatt
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Dan Gabriel Cacuci (Ed.)
Handbook of Nuclear Engineering With Figures and Tables
Volume I
Nuclear Engineering Fundamentals
123
Professor Dan Gabriel Cacuci Institute for Nuclear Technology and Reactor Safety Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Gotthard-Franz-Str. Karlsruhe Germany
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Preface A new Handbook of Nuclear Engineering is indeed a rare event, although the engineering sciences – and especially nuclear engineering – have progressed immensely during the fiftytwo years that have passed since the publication of the first handbook of this kind. Even if the basic principles of nuclear engineering have remained unchanged for decades, it is compelling to note that the professional practice in this sector has enjoyed great progress during this period. Professor Dan Cacuci has embarked on an ambitious task: to edit a new Handbook of Nuclear Engineering, aiming at making it as all encompassing as possible. He successfully carried out this huge task in a very short time span, bringing together specialists of the highest international reputation. Primordially, nuclear engineering draws its roots from the nuclear sciences, a field founded on the most fundamental advances in the physics of the th century. This is an exacting field conceptually, demanding knowledge not only of the intimate structure of matter, but also of the mathematical formalisms that represent this structure. A field that is, regrettably, increasingly more neglected in the general education. At the same time, nuclear engineering is also about engineering at the highest level of exigency for harnessing the extremely high power density in nuclear systems, intertwined with the absolute necessity to control and operate these systems in conditions of maximum safety and economic feasibility. Last but not least – and this is probably the source of its unique characteristics – nuclear engineering is anchored in time, in its own history, first and foremost, and e
