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Worldwide interest in nuclear reactors continues to increase and significant focus has been placed on advanced nuclear reactors intended to produce electricity and process heat. However, there is limited literature on the importance of research reactors and certain specialized reactor analysis topics. Thus, this book addresses these topics over three sections: "Nuclear Reactors for Spacecraft Propulsion", "Research Reactors", and "Select Reactor Analysis Techniques". It provides detailed information on the use of nuclear reactors for spacecraft propulsion, presents research conducted on reactors in Idaho, USA, and discusses reactor analysis topics such as cyber-informed engineering for nuclear reactor digital instrumentation and control, the effect of plenum gas on fuel temperature, and more.

Nuclear reactors. --- Atomic piles --- Chain reaction piles --- Reactors (Nuclear physics) --- Neutron transport theory --- Nuclear energy --- Nuclear engineering --- Nuclear facilities --- Nuclear physics --- Nuclear propulsion

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This book examines the development of nuclear propulsion in the Royal Navy from the first proposal in 1946 to the start-up of the last core improvement for the first submarine reactor power plant PWR 1 in December 1974. Drawing from unreleased records and archives, the book answers questions around three main themes. Political: what problems were encountered in transferring nuclear knowledge from the USA to the UK in the post-war period, and how much support was there for the development of nuclear propulsion? Military: why was there a requirement to develop nuclear propulsion, and in particular, why submarines? Technical: were the problems associated with nuclear energy fully appreciated, and did the UK have the technical and engineering capability to develop nuclear propulsion? Aside from the political considerations and military motives for developing nuclear propulsion in the Royal Navy, the author focuses on the technical problems that had to be overcome by all participants in the Royal Navy’s development of nuclear propulsion, adding significantly to naval historiography. Providing a critical analysis of the political, technological, operational and industrial issues of introducing nuclear propulsion into the Royal Navy, the author situates his research in the context of the evolving Cold War, changing Anglo-American relations, the end of Empire and the relative decline of British power. Gareth Michael Jones is a former CPO(WSM) Royal Navy submariner retiring from the service in 2003. He is currently working as a Project Engineer with Babcock International Group at Devonport Royal Dockyard. He is interested in the history of nuclear propulsion development and completed his PhD at the University of Plymouth in the UK.

Nuclear propulsion. --- Atomic-powered vehicles --- Nuclear-powered vehicles --- Transportation, Atomic-powered --- Nuclear energy --- Nuclear reactors --- Military history. --- Great Britain --- Technology. --- History. --- United States --- International relations --- Politics and war. --- Military History. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- History of Technology. --- US History. --- Diplomatic and International History. --- Military and Defence Studies. --- War --- War and politics --- Diplomatic history --- International history (Diplomatic history) --- World history --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Military historiography --- Military history --- Wars --- Historiography --- History --- Naval history --- Political aspects