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Author Emrich, William J., author.

Title Principles of nuclear rocket propulsion / William Emrich, Jr.

Publication Info. Kidlington, Oxford, United Kingdom : Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier, 2016.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Elsevier ScienceDirect Ebook  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Note Includes index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ScienceDirect, viewed August 12, 2016).
Contents Introduction -- Rocket engine fundamentals -- Nuclear rocket engine cycles -- Interplanetary mission analysis -- Basic nuclear structure and processes -- Neutron flux energy distribution -- Neutron balance equation and transport theory -- Multigroup neutron diffusion equations -- Thermal fluid aspects of nuclear rockets -- Turbomachinery -- Nuclear reactor kinetics -- Nuclear rocket stability -- Fuel burnup and transmutation -- Radiation shielding for nuclear rockets -- Materials for nuclear thermal rockets -- Nuclear rocket engine testing -- Advanced nuclear rocket concepts.
Subject Nuclear rockets.
Fusées à propulsion nucléaire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mechanical.
Nuclear rockets
Other Form: Print version: 0128044748 9780128044742 (OCoLC)946605532
ISBN 9780128045305 (electronic bk.)
0128045302 (electronic bk.)
9780128044742
0128044748
Standard No. AU@ 000059481426
CHBIS 010796371
CHVBK 403941547
DEBSZ 482472618
CHNEW 001013714
AU@ 000068582463

 
    
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