Fundamentals of Nuclear Reactor Physics

摘要

Professor Lewis has done an admirable job of providing new insights and fresh looks at reactor physics as he has taught the subject matter for a remarkable career as an educator and textbook writer. I have all of his textbooks and I refer to them often.rnI will refer to this textbook often as well because I like his treatments of many practical subjects for practicing engineers. At last we get a text that casts the transient thermal behavior of reactors into a mental model using time constants, the parameters that characterize the speed with which things change in a reactor. Discussion of reactor dynamics in terms of time constants is very useful in understanding the wide range of time-dependent phenomena in a reactor. Even though my teaching is based on a similar time constant delivery, I found new insights from the text. It proves that no matter how competent you feel you may be in a subject area, you can always learn something from others.