Nuclear reactor physics / Weston M. Stacey.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 15, 2018).

Basic Reactor Physics. Neutron-Nuclear Reactions -- Neutron Chain Fission Reactors -- Neutron Diffusion and Transport Theory -- Neutron Energy Distribution -- Nuclear Reactor Dynamics -- Fuel Burnup -- Nuclear Power Reactors -- Reactor Safety -- Advanced Reactor Physics. Neutron Transport Theory -- Neutron Slowing Down -- Resonance Absorption -- Neutron Thermalization -- Perturbation and Variational Methods -- Homogenization -- Nodal and Synthesis Methods -- Space-Time Neutron Kinetics -- Appendix A: Physical Constants and Nuclear Data -- Appendix B: Some Useful Mathematical Formulas -- Appendix C: Step Functions, Delta Functions, and Other Functions -- Appendix D: Some Properties of Special Functions -- Appendix E: Introduction to Matrices and Matrix Algebra -- Appendix F: Introduction to Laplace Transforms.

Includes bibliographical references and index.