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by Adrian Carrington (Author)
Due to operational reasons it is no longer possible to display 70% of the book contents on Amazon ('look inside' facility) as this is now set at a default of 20% from which it is not possible to view the high quality learning experience and engineering and scientific detail of this book as it rapidly progresses beyond the early chapters. For a much greater informed choice for the buyer it is strongly advisable to look at the unabridged (blue) equivalent, which remains at 70%, and to read its synopsis.
This abridged (printed only in black & white) version is based upon the more detailed and advanced 3rd edition of the 'unabridged' (480 page, blue cover and in colour, hardback in premium colour) publication on the clear basis that many readers are seeking a text that is less challenging in nature and that is without a more detailed holistic approach that would be advantageous to greater depth of study as that expected of the more intent student. Also, at this level, we have opportunity, with a lighter text (just 294 pages), to provide a serious nuclear engineering publication but at a very favourable price. With this anticipation this abridged version has been heavily focussed to a more reactor and power plant engineering, systems and technology perspective (65% of the contents herein) but at the same time still incorporating the essential physics (32%) and mathematical-physics (3%) fundamentals required at this level; any less than this would render an inadequate understanding. In this context, this abridged version is ideal for those who are students of, or qualified in, engineering, physics or chemistry or for those in possession of pre-university level physics and mathematics but who seek a rather excellent, impressive and quite fluent working knowledge of this subject that is very untypical of non-nuclear engineers. The question was; 'how deep do we want to go without going too deep but at the same time sounding something like a nuclear engineer?' and herein is the answer. This being said the unabridged version of this publication, unlike this abridged version, is presented throughout in colour that significantly facilitates understanding in that diagrams are made more legible and the mathematics, where more challenging, is made a lot easier to follow; also in that all theory is more comprehensively closed-off right down to its deeper fundamentals. The switch to black & white print in this abridged version also presents substantial cost saving to the student although at cost to facilitating presentational understanding and ease of reading. Given this, the clear academic and investment advantages and intellectual lethality of the unabridged (480 page) edition, estimated to be equivalent to roughly half of an M.Sc.(Nucl Eng) course, then the reader may find the unabridged edition a more suitable text to study that also precipitates a far greater, and fierce, pervasive engineering/scientific IQ, albeit being moderately more expensive (colour print and substantially extra and more advanced material), this being especially so where deeper understanding is sought. This edition also provides an exceptional, and easy to understand, appendix (46 pages) on the subject of engineering control theory. The author is a retired chartered (electronics/software) engineer who graduated in nuclear engineering in 1981 from Queen Mary College, University of London (QMUL) where he also undertook research in plutonium breeding. He has since worked for nearly forty years on numerous engineering design projects in nuclear and conventional power plant, nuclear fuel processing, on scientific instrumentation and in the oil & gas and chemical industries as well as managing an engineering department for a major international engineering company. He is also the author of other works (on philosophy/psychology and project management) and currently mentors undergraduates in chemical engineering.
Number of Pages: 302
Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: January 05, 2023
