Table of Contents
Part 1: Introductory Concepts Of Nuclear Reactor Analysis Chapter 1: An Introduction to Nuclear Power Generation 3 Chapter 2: The Nuclear Physics of Fission Chain Reactions 10 Chapter 3: Fission Chain Reactions and Nuclear ReactorAn Introduction 74
Part 2: The One-Speed Diffusion Model Of A Nuclear Reactor Chapter 4: Neutron Transport 103 Chapter 5: The One-Speed Diffusion-Theory Model 149 Chapter 6: Nuclear Reactor Kinetics 233
Part 3: The Multigroup Diffusion Method Chapter 7: Multigroup Diffusion Theory 285 Chapter 8: Fast-Spectrum Calculations and Fast-Group Constants 315 Chapter 9: Thermal Spectrum Calculations and Thermal Group Constants 375 Chapter 10: Cell Calculations for Heterogeneous Core Lattices 398
Part 4: An Introduction To Nuclear Reactor-Core Design Chapter 11: General Aspects of Nuclear Reactor Core Design 447 Chapter 12: Thermo-Hydraulic Analysis of Nuclear Reactor Cores 467 Chapter 13: The Calculation of Core Power Distributions 515 Chapter 14: Reactivity Control 537 Chapter 15: Analysis of Core-Composition Changes 566 Appendices
A. Some useful Nuclear Data 605
B. Some useful Mathematical Formulas 611
C. Step Functions, Delta Functions, and Other Exotic Beasts 613
D. Some Properties of Special Functions 616
E. Some Assorted Facts on Linear Operators 621
F. An Introduction to Matrices and Matrix Algebra 626
G. An Introduction to Laplace Transforms 629
H. Typical Nuclear Power Reactor Data 634
I. Units Utilized in Text 636
Index 639