This book provides an authoritative reference on all aspects of the nuclear energy enterprise for both fission and fusion reactors.

Table of Contents

• Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series
• Series Preface
• Volume Preface
• About the Editor-in-Chief
• Editor and Contributors
• Nuclear Energy, Introduction - Nicholas Tsoulfanidis
• Fission Reactor Physics - Michael Natelson
• Nuclear Fission Power Plants - Ronald Allen Knief
• GEN-IV Reactors - Taek K. Kim
• Small Modular Reactors - Nicholas Tsoulfanidis
• Isotope Separation Methods for Nuclear Fuel - Shuichi Hasegawa
• Nuclear Reactor Materials and Fuels - James S. Tulenko
• Modern Nuclear Fuel Cycles - James S. Tulenko
• Uranium and Thorium Resources - J. Stephen Herring
• Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing - Michael F. Simpson and Jack D. Law
• Nuclear Facilities Decommissioning - David R. Turner
• Radioactive Waste Management: Storage, Transport, and Disposal - Audeen W. Fentiman
• Nuclear Fusion - Thomas J. Dolan
• Nuclear Power Economics - M. R. Deinert
• Radiation Sources - Richard E. Faw and J. Kenneth Shultis
• Ionizing Radiation Detectors - Wm. David Kulp III
• Health Physics - John W. Poston
• Dosimetry - John W. Poston
• Radiation Shielding - J. Kenneth Shultis and Richard E. Faw
• Applications of Radioisotopes - Robert Bruce Hayes
• Nuclear Safeguards and Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Materials - Michael C. Baker