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Nuclear Facilities

Author Bill Collum
Release Date: 2016/10/01
ISBN: 9780081019399
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Book Description

Designing new nuclear facilities is an extraordinarily complex exercise, often requiring teams of specialists several hundred strong. Nuclear Facilities: A Designer’s Guide provides an insight into each of the main contributors and shows how the whole design process is drawn together.

Essential reading for all nuclear professionals: those already involved in the industry will gain knowledge that enables them to interact more effectively with colleagues in other disciplines. Its wealth of information will assist students and graduates in progressing more rapidly into fully rounded contributors to the nuclear facility design process. Whilst those joining nuclear from other industries will find a structured introduction to the nuclear world and discover what differentiates it from other spheres of engineering.

  • A single, comprehensive text on nuclear facility design which covers all major aspects of the process
    • Packed full of essential information, its complex subject matter is explained in a logical and comprehensible style
    • Valuable to those involved in both new build and decommissioning projects
    • Written by a highly respected expert in the nuclear industry

    Table of Contents

    1. Cover image
    2. Title page
    3. Table of Contents
    4. Copyright
    5. Dedication
    6. List of figures
    7. Author biography
    8. Acknowledgments
    9. Author's note
    10. Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
    11. Introduction
    12. 1: Nuclear fuel cycle
      1. Abstract
      2. 1.1 Uranium mining and purification
      3. 1.2 The atom
      4. 1.3 Enrichment
      5. 1.4 Fuel fabrication
      6. 1.5 Nuclear reactors
      7. 1.6 Nuclear reaction
      8. 1.7 Control rods
      9. 1.8 Burnable poison
      10. 1.9 Neutron activation
      11. 1.10 Decay chain
      12. 1.11 Plutonium creation
      13. 1.12 MOX fuel
      14. 1.13 Fast breeder fuel
      15. 1.14 Spent fuel removal
      16. 1.15 Spent fuel routing
      17. 1.16 Reprocessing
      18. 1.17 High level waste
      19. 1.18 Intermediate level waste
      20. 1.19 Permanent disposal
    13. 2: Radiation
      1. Abstract
      2. 2.1 Radiation and contamination
      3. 2.2 Electromagnetic spectrum
      4. 2.3 Nonionizing radiation
      5. 2.4 Ionizing radiation
      6. 2.5 Exposure to radiation
      7. 2.6 Protection from radiation
      8. 2.7 Criticality
      9. 2.8 Personal dose measurement
    14. 3: Radiological zoning
      1. Abstract
      2. 3.1 Zoning rationale
      3. 3.2 Naming conventions
      4. 3.3 Radiation zones
      5. 3.4 Contamination zones
      6. 3.5 Guiding principles
      7. 3.6 Dual classifications
      8. 3.7 Surface contamination
      9. 3.8 Depicting zones
    15. 4: Radiological changerooms
      1. Abstract
      2. 4.1 Generic types
      3. 4.2 Changerooms
      4. 4.3 Sub changerooms
    16. 5: Structural
      1. Abstract
      2. 5.1 Steelwork structures
      3. 5.2 Concrete structures
      4. 5.3 Combined concrete and steel structures
      5. 5.4 Seismic analysis
      6. 5.5 Extreme environmental events
    17. 6: Process engineering
      1. Abstract
      2. 6.1 Closed cells
      3. 6.2 Mass balance
      4. 6.3 Feedstock analysis
      5. 6.4 End product
      6. 6.5 Transfer devices
      7. 6.6 Services distribution
      8. 6.7 Agitation systems
      9. 6.8 Overflows
      10. 6.9 Volume reduction
      11. 6.10 Solids removal
      12. 6.11 Ion exchange (IX)
      13. 6.12 Off gas treatment
    18. 7: Mechanical engineering
      1. Abstract
      2. 7.1 Mechanical handling caves
      3. 7.2 Shielding windows
      4. 7.3 Manipulators
      5. 7.4 Shield doors
      6. 7.5 Bogies
      7. 7.6 Decontamination
      8. 7.7 Cave arrangements
      9. 7.8 Flasks
    19. 8: Ventilation
      1. Abstract
      2. 8.1 Role of nuclear ventilation system
      3. 8.2 Integration with radiological zoning
      4. 8.3 Cascade philosophy
      5. 8.4 Engineered gaps
      6. 8.5 Maintaining containment at truck bays
      7. 8.6 Maintaining containment on building perimeter
      8. 8.7 Filtration
      9. 8.8 Air conditioning
      10. 8.9 Heat recovery
      11. 8.10 Solar heat gain
      12. 8.11 The ventilation sequence
      13. 8.12 Air handling units
      14. 8.13 Air quality
      15. 8.14 Vessel ventilation
      16. 8.15 Gloveboxes
    20. 9: Cranes
      1. Abstract
      2. 9.1 Conventional cranes and high integrity nuclear cranes
      3. 9.2 In-cave cranes
    21. 10: Electrical
      1. Abstract
      2. 10.1 Electricity supply
      3. 10.2 Control systems
      4. 10.3 Instrumentation
    22. 11: Radiometric instruments
      1. Abstract
      2. 11.1 Monitoring requirements
      3. 11.2 Detection technologies
      4. 11.3 Technology selection
      5. 11.4 Instruments
      6. 11.5 Safeguards
    23. 12: Project planning
      1. Abstract
      2. 12.1 Client specification
      3. 12.2 Project controls
      4. 12.3 Project management
      5. 12.4 Programming
      6. 12.5 Project phase activities
      7. 12.6 Feedback
    24. 13: Waste management
      1. Abstract
      2. 13.1 Waste management hierarchy—conventional
      3. 13.2 Waste management hierarchy—radiological
      4. 13.3 Evolution of a waste management strategy
    25. 14: Safety
      1. Abstract
      2. 14.1 Occupational safety
      3. 14.2 Nuclear safety
      4. 14.3 Safety case
      5. 14.4 Hazard analysis studies
      6. 14.5 Risk
      7. 14.6 As low as reasonably practicable
      8. 14.7 Safety reports
      9. 14.8 Periodic reviews
      10. 14.9 Safety case integration
    26. 15: Decommissioning planning
      1. Abstract
      2. 15.1 Site license conditions
      3. 15.2 Planning factors
      4. 15.3 Operations phase
      5. 15.4 Decommissioning phases
      6. 15.5 Decommissioning strategy
      7. 15.6 Decommissioning plan
    27. 16: Future-proofing
      1. Abstract
      2. 16.1 Design for decommissioning (DfD)
      3. 16.2 Design to remodel and reuse (DRR)
      4. 16.3 Integration with decommissioning strategy
      5. 16.4 Principles of DfD and DRR
      6. 16.5 Funding future-proofing
      7. 16.6 Future-proofing enablers
      8. 16.7 Responsibilities
    28. 17: Design development
      1. Abstract
      2. 17.1 Layout preparations
      3. 17.2 Layout development
      4. 17.3 Vehicle bay
      5. 17.4 Ventilation stack
    29. Index
    3.146.255.127