Supercritical-Pressure Light Water Cooled Reactors

✍ Scribed by Yoshiaki Oka, Hideo Mori (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Japan
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on the latest reactor concepts, single pass core and experimental findings in thermal hydraulics, materials, corrosion, and water chemistry. It highlights research on supercritical-pressure light water cooled reactors (SCWRs), one of the Generation IV reactors that are studied around the world. This book includes cladding material development and experimental findings on heat transfer, corrosion and water chemistry.

The work presented here will help readers to understand the fundamental elements of reactor design and analysis methods, thermal hydraulics, materials and water chemistry of supercritical water used as a coolant in nuclear power reactors. It will also help readers to broaden their understanding of fundamental elements of light water cooled reactor technologies and the evolution of reactor concepts.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction and Overview....Pages 1-20
Reactor Design and Safety....Pages 21-248
Thermal Hydraulics....Pages 249-319
Materials....Pages 321-345
Material–Coolant Interactions....Pages 347-375
Back Matter....Pages 377-380

✦ Subjects

Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Engineering; Tribology, Corrosion and Coatings; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons; Energy Technology; Nuclear Chemistry