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Author:   Yoshiaki Oka
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:  

9789819627301

ISBN 10:   9819627303
Pages:   209
Publication Date:   16 April 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   Japanese

Table of Contents

Early Reactor Development in the United States.- Power Uprating of Light Water Reactors.- Advancement of Light Water Reactor Technology.- Light Water Reactor.- Passive Safety Light Water Reactors and Severe Accident Countermeasures.- Heavy Water Moderated Reactors: CANDU etc..- Graphite Moderated Reactors.- Liquid Metal Cooled Fast Breeder Reactors and Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle.- Uranium Resources, Uranium Enrichment, Reprocessing and Plutonium-Utilization in LWRs.- Economic and Political Aspects of Plutonium Use.- Liquid Fuel Reactors, Molten Salt Reactors.- Organic Cooled Reactors.- Nuclear Reactors and Radioisotope Power Sources for Aerospace.- Generation III and Generation IV Nuclear Reactors.- Investment Risk Reduction and Power Generation Cost Reduction.- Concept of Supercritical Pressure Light Water Reactors.- Concept of Nuclear Fusion Reactors.- Concept of Fusion-Fission Hybrid Reactors.- University Nuclear Engineering Education.- Research and Development and Knowledge Base for Nuclear Utilization.- Summary and Discussion.- Exercise.

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Yoshiaki Oka is an emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo and is world renowned in the field of nuclear engineering. His work includes design and analysis of nuclear reactors and neutron transport; he developed the concept of the supercritical pressure water-cooled reactor (SCWR), also known as a Generation IV Reactor, studied globally. He has authored books on SCWR—Nuclear Power Reactor Development and Advances in Light Water Reactor Technologies—by Springer, and he has published approximately 230 peer-reviewed journal articles. ScholarGPS ranks him second as a scholar in “nuclear reactors” and 16th in “nuclear power”. He contributed to nuclear engineering research and education at the University of Tokyo as an assistant, associate, and full professor from 1976 to 2010, playing a crucial role in launching the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, and the Nuclear Professional School at the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. In the 2000s, he was a leader in preparing textbooks on nuclear engineering, and the two English editions of his books were published by Springer as the first two volumes in the book series An Advanced Course in Nuclear Engineering. He was also a professor at Waseda University between 2010 and 2014, initiating its Nuclear Engineering Department. Prof. Oka served as the chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission between 2014 and 2020. Since then, he has studied the issues arising from the interface between nuclear utilization and society.

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