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Some countries have moved beyond the design and operation of nuclear electricity generating systems to confronting the issue of nuclear waste disposal, whole others are still committed to further nuclear facility construction. Volume 24 chronicles these key developments and examines nuclear reactor accidents at Chernobyl, Bhopal, and TMI. The text also analyzes current international knowledge of neutron interactions; deterministic methods based on mean values for assessing radiation distributions; practical applications of the TIBERE models to explicit computation of leakage terms in realistic reactor geometry; and a technique to deal with the issues of finance, risk assessment, and public perception.
List of contents
Chernobyl and Bhopal Ten Years on.- Transport Theory in Discrete Stochastic Mixtures.- The Role of Neural Networks in Reactor Diagnostics and Control.- Data Testing of ENDF/B-VI with MCNP: Critical Experiments, Thermal-Reactor Lattices, and Time-of-Flight Measurements.- System Dynamics: An Introduction & Applications to the Nuclear Industry.- BN Theory: Advances and New Models for Neutron Leakage Calculation.- Current Status of Core Degradation and Melt Progression in Severe LWR Accidents.
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.
