عنوان

Nuclear Energy

3642774253

9783642774256

b573665

Nuclear Energy

[Book]

edited by Alvin M. Weinberg.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

1992

(xiv, 808 pages)

Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, Part A The Scientific Papers, A / 5.

I Introduction: Eugene Wigner and Nuclear Energy --; Introduction: Eugene Wigner and Nuclear Energy --; II Memoir of the Uranium Project --; Memoir of the Uranium Project --; III Acrticles, Reports, and Memoranda on Nuclear Energy --; The Pre-Chicago Days Annotation by Alvin M. Weinberg --; 1. For Discussion of the Homogeneous and Lattice Arrangements for Power Plants --; 2. Approximation for Radius of Sphere Sufficient for Chain Reaction in Light Isotype --; 3. Diffusion of Slow Neutrons on Absorbing Materials --; 4. Solution of Boltzmann's Equation for Monoegenergetic Neutrons in an Infinite Homogeneous Medium --; 5. Review of the Measurements of the Resonance Absorption of Neutrons by Uranium in Bulk --; 6. Resonance Absoprtion of Neutrons by Spheres --; 7. Effect of Geometry on Resonance Absorption of Neutrons by Uranium --; 8. Effect of Temperature on Total Resonance Absorption of Neutrons by Spheres of Uranium Oxide --; 9. Absorption of Thermal Neutrons in Uranium --; 10. Density of Neutrons in Carbon Block with and Without Absorbing Material --; Reactor Engineering at Chicago, 1942-1945, and at Clinton, 1946-1947 Annotation by Alvin M. Weinberg --; Plutonium-Producing Reactors --; 11. Report of the Committee for the Examination of the Moore-Leverett Design of a He-Cooled Plant --; 12. General Considerations Concerning the Lattice Structure --; 13. Survey of the Power Plant Problem --; 14. A Plant with Water Cooling --; 15. On a Plant with Water Cooling --; 16. Preliminary Process Design of Liquid Cooled Power Plant Producing 5 x 105 kW --; 17. Memorandum from P-9 Committee --; Breeders --; 18. Breeders and Converters: Minutes of Lecture on April 7, 1945 --; 19. Preliminary Calculations on a Breeder with Circulating Uranium --; 20. New Ideas for Nuclear Reactors --; 21. Project Hope: A Chemical Reprocessing Plant for a Nuclear Power Economy --; Reactor Shielding --; 22. Protection Against Radiations --; 23. Penetration of Fission Neutrons Through Water --; 24. On the Available Information Concerning the Interaction of Neutrons with Matter --; Fission Products --; 25. The Rate of Decay of Fission Products --; Wigner Effect --; 26. The Effects of Radiation on Solids --; Reactor Theory Annotation by Alvin M. Weinberg --; 27. Theoretical Physics in the Metallurgical Laboratory of Chicago --; 28. Mathematical Problems of Nuclear Reactor Theory --; Microscopic Reactor Theory --; 29. Resonance Escape Probability in Lattices --; 30. On the Utilization of Thermal Neutrons --; Temperature Coefficients --; 31. Effect of the Temperature of the Moderator on the Velocity Distribution of Neutrons with Numerical Calculations for H as Moderator --; Macroscopic Reactor Theory --; 32. Approximate Boundary Conditions for Diffusion Equation at Inteface Between Two Media --; 33. On the Boundary Condition Between Two Multiplying Media --; 34. On Variations of the Power Output in a Running Pile --; 35. Use of the Pile Oscillator for the Measurement of Pile Constants --; 36. Effect of Small Perturbations on Pile Period --; 37. Efficiency of Control Rods Which Absorb Only Thermal Neutrons --; General Articles on Nuclear Energy and Energy Policy Annotation by Alvin M. Weinberg --; 38. Atomic Energy --; 39. Impact of the Developments in Atomic Energy on the Sciences --; 40. Ziele und Probleme von Reaktoren --; 41. Longer Range View of Nuclear Energy --; 42. Our Needs for Energy and Ways to Satisfy Them --; Book on Reactor Theory and Nuclear Physics --; IV The Wigner Patents --; The Wigner Patents.

Eugene Wigner is one of the very few scientists that may safely be describedas creators of 20th-century physics. This volume of his Collected Works is devoted to his contributions to nuclear energy. In his Introduction and Annotations A.M. Weinberg surveys Wigner's contributions to nuclear-reaction physics and nuclear engineering, at the same time giving a glimpse of the early history of nuclear-reactor technology. Wigner himself gave a lively and critical account, which is published in this volume for the first time. Furthermore the book contains forty-two reports and memoranda from 1941 to 1945 and twelve of Wigner's many patents relating to nuclear energy.

Nuclear physics.

Physical organic chemistry.

Physics.

edited by Alvin M. Weinberg.

Alvin M Weinberg

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