Nuclear Reactor Physics

Weston M. Stacey is Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His career spans more than 40 years of research and teaching in nuclear reactor physics, fusion plasma physics and fusion and fission reactor conceptual design. He led the IAEA INTOR Workshop (1979-88) that led to the present ITER project, for which he was awarded the US Department of Energy Distinguished Associate Award and two Department of Energy Certificates of Appreciation. Professor Stacey is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and of the American Physical Society. He is the recipient of several prizes, among them the American Nuclear Society Seaborg Medal for Nuclear Research and the Wigner Reactor Physics Award, and the author of six previous books and numerous research papers.

From reviews of the first edition:"...Stacey...developed the material in Part I dealing with basic concepts and theory, in teaching undergraduate and first-year graduate students.... Part II is a more mathematically intense treatment of advanced topics." SciTech Book News "The first comprehensive book on the subject in 25 years." La Doc STI "I hope that the publication of this impressive text, whose strength lies in its breadth and it modernity, will accompany a renewed interest in nuclear power expressed through fission reactors." Physics Today

• PrefacePart 1: Basic Reactor Physics1. Neutron Nuclear Reactions2. Neutron Chain Fission Reactors3. Neutron Diffusion Theory4. Neutron Energy Distribution5. Nuclear Reactor Dynamics6. Fuel Burnup7. Nuclear Power Reactors8. Reactor SafetyPart2: Advanced Reactor Physics9. Neutron Transport Theory10. Neutron Slowing Down11. Resonance Absorption12. Neutron Thermalization13. Perturbation and Variational Methods14. Homogenization15. Nodal and Synthesis Methods16. Space-Time Neutron KineticsAppendicesA. Some Useful Nuclear DataB. Some Useful Mathematical FormulasC. Step Functions, Delta Functions, and Other Exotic BeastsD. Some Properties of Special FunctionsE. Introduction to Matrices and Matris AlgebraF. Introduction to Laplace Transforms