A Guidebook to Nuclear Reactors,   ISBN:9780520034822

Customer Rating: 

I am a trained scientist, but not a nuclear Engineer. I wanted to learn more about how reactors work, specifically how they are built, how they function and what they look like inside. Prior to this book, all I found was oversimplistic cartoon drawings made for non-technical people or Nuclear Engineering textbooks that were loaded with equations but had few diagrams of actual reactors. This book is exactly what I needed. It has plenty of technical discussion but is not overly mathematical. Has loads of very detailed drawings of reactors, reactor systems and containment structures, plus discussion of nuclear waste, accident situations, etc. The book describes, many reactor types like PWR, BWR, gas-cooled reactors, fast reactors, heavy water reactors, etc. The book was written in 1979, so it doesn't have info on the latest in technology, but that was not a problem for me. If you want a good, detailed description of how reactors work and look inside, this is a fantastic book. Plenty of detail without a lot of equations and being and older book, the price is very low. New books on this topic are very expensive.