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The Editors take pleasure in presenting Volume 13 of this annual review series, consisting, as usual, of author itative reviews of timely developments in the technical fields of nuclear engineering, science, and teechnology. No one in the community we try to serve in a post Harrisburg era will need convincing of the relevance of the first two items to be mentioned from the volume. Instru mentation for two-phase flow measurements, by Banerjee and Lahey, has applicability in the engineering research labor atory and to power reactors; the U. S. LWR still remains the dominant power reactor type and seems likely to retain its hold if only through the capital of existing plants this century. Messrs. Bohm, Closs, and Kuhn, however, have a longer time scale to respect as they view for us the prospects of nuclear waste disposal from a European viewpoint. They bring out nicely the political aspects that cannot be divorced from technical considerations in this area, or in the more militant terms of confrontation, in this arena, perhaps. We are pleased to carry in this volume two complemen tary papers on mathematical methods in nuclear engineering.
List of contents
Radioactive Waste Disposal.- The Response Matrix Method.- Finite Element Approximation to the Even-Parity Transport Equation.- Advances in Two-Phase Flow Instrumentation.- Bayesian Methods in Risk Assessment.
About the author
Martin Becker, geboren 1957 im südlichen Hochland von Tansania, besuchte dort ein englisches Internat. Mit zehn Jahren reiste er mit der Familie nach Deutschland aus.§Die Jugend verbrachte er in Gemmingen und in Büsingen am Rhein, wo er nach dem Gymnasium die berufliche Laufbahn in der Schweiz einschlug. §Nach dem Zivildienst in Heidelberg zog Becker nach München. Er lebt heute bei Landsberg/Lech und ist freiberuflich im Großraum München tätig.
