Nuclear Energy: An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes

by Raymond L. Murray, Keith E. Holbert Ph.D.

Nuclear An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes, Eighth Edition, provides essential information on basic nuclear physics, systems and the applications of nuclear energy. It comprehensively covers Basic Concepts, Radiation and Its Uses, and Nuclear Power, providing students with a broad view of nuclear energy and science in a fast-paced format that features updated, timely content on topics of new and growing importance to current and future nuclear professionals, such as tritium-powered betavoltaic integrated circuit chips, the modulation of radioactive decay constant due to solar activity, Monte Carlo radiation transport calculations and accelerator-driven systems. This book is an essential resource for any first course on nuclear energy and systems.

Genres: Physics, Science

624 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1980

About the author

Raymond L. Murray (Ph.D. University of Tennessee) is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Nuclear Engineering of North Carolina State University.
He studied under J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California at Berkeley.
He was involved in the Manhattan Project of World War II, where he contributed to the uranium isotope separation process at Berkeley and Oak Ridge.
In 1950 he joined the North Carolina State University as Professor of Physics, and he remained there for over five decades.