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This book provides insight with non-technical explanations of how nuclear reactor technology holds the promise of making significant contributions to the struggle against global warming, and why dozens of nations are engaged in innovation and expansion of nuclear technology.
List of contents
- 1: The Energy Stored in Atoms
- 2: US Developments: 1940�45
- 3: US Developments 1945�60
- 4: US Developments 1960�00
- 5: Nuclear Resistance
- 6: Reactor Development in Britain
- 7: Reactor Development in France
- 8: Reactor Development in Russia
- 9: Reactor Development in China
- 10: Reactor Development in Other Countries
- 11: The Three Mile Island Accident
- 12: The Chernobyl Accident
- 13: The Fukushima Accident
- 14: Solar, Wind, and Battery Power
- 15: Generation-III Reactors
- 16: Fuel, Waste, and Radioactivity
- 17: Generation-IV Reactors
- 18: Molten-salt Reactors
- 19: Liquid-sodium Reactors (LSRs)
- 20: Liquid Lead-cooled Fast Reactors
- 21: High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactors
- 22: Floating Nuclear Reactors
- 23: Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)
- 24: Nuclear Reactor Export Market
- 25: Meeting the Global Warming Challenge
About the author
Edward Friedman obtained an undergraduate degree in Physics from MIT in 1957 and a PhD in Physics from Columbia University in 1963. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Mathematics from Sofia University in Bulgaria in 2000 and served as director of a program to establish an indigenous college of engineering at Kabul University in Afghanistan (1970-1973). He was awarded an Education Medal from the King of Afghanistan (1973). At Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, USA, he served as Professor of Physics (1963-1973), Dean of the College (1973-1986) and became Director of an award-winning program on applications of computers for secondary school mathematics and science education (1986-2004). He is currently a Trustee at the American University in Bulgaria from 2017.
Summary
This book provides insight with non-technical explanations of how nuclear reactor technology holds the promise of making significant contributions to the struggle against global warming, and why dozens of nations are engaged in innovation and expansion of nuclear technology.
