The present review volume not only covers a wide range of topics pertinent to nuclear science and technology, but has attracted a distinguished international authorship, for which the editors are grateful. The opening review by Drs. Janet Tawn and Richard Wakeford addresses the difficult matter of questioning sci- tific hypotheses in a court of law. The United Kingdom experienced a substantial nuclear accident in the 1950s in the form of the Windscale Pile fire. This in itself had both good and bad consequences; the setting up of a licensing authority to ensure nuclear safety was one, the...

Since its initiation in 1962, this series has presented authoritative reviews of the most important developments in nuclear science and engineering, from both theoretical and applied perspectives. In addition, many original contributions are included.

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...

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...

Dieses Fachbuch gibt eine kompakte Übersicht über regenerative Systeme zur Wärme- und Kälteerzeugung. Einbindungs- und Automatisierungsschemata ermöglichen einen schnellen Überblick. Es werden die Grundlagen zum Regelverhalten von Systemen zur regenerativen Energienutzung dargestellt. Praxisbeispiele zeigen anschaulich Standardlösungen zur Einbindung von regenerativen Energiequellen.