Advanced Reactor Concepts (ARC): A New Nuclear Power Plant Perspective for Energy gives engineers and nuclear engineering researchers a comprehensive tool to get up-to-date on the latest technology supporting the Generation IV nuclear plant systems. After describing a brief history, alternative technology is discussed such as electromagnetic pumps, heat pipes as control devices, and integration of Nuclear Air-Brayton Combined Cycles, helping nuclear plants provide dispatchable electricity to the grid and heat to the industry. Packed with examples and on all the types, benefits and challenges, this book delivers the go-to reference engineers need to advance safe nuclear energy as a low-carbon option.
- Teaches theory and concepts on generation IV technology, including advanced reactor concepts (ARC) and electromagnetic pumps, along with comparisons of different types and sizes
- Advances the energy transition with critical carbon-free technology that can supplement intermittent power sources such as wind and solar
- Helps readers Grasp alternative heat storage technology, including Nuclear Air-Brayton Combined Cycle
1. Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP)
2. Electromagnetic Pump for Large Pool Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor Concept
3. Nuclear Power Reactors Driven Radiation Harden Environments
4. Heat Pipe Application Driven Fission Nuclear Power Plant
5. Nuclear Air-Brayton Combined Cycle (NACC)
Ali Zamani Paydar is currently a nuclear engineer researcher and mechanical engineer, studying advanced reactor technology from the perspective of deploying emerging advanced nuclear reactor concepts. Ali earned a bachelors degree in atomic physics from the University of Tehran and earned his masters degree in nuclear engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). After graduation, he pursued his career as a nuclear researcher and mechanical engineer, specifically in the field of thermal hydraulics and heat transfer of Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR). His main areas of focus are computational fluid dynamics and thermal hydraulics of nuclear reactors from a safety perspective in situations such as boiling, flow instability, and critical heat flux in generation IV nuclear reactors and strategic plans for the proper development of this technology in human life. He has published several papers and books on nuclear technology. Seyed Kamal Mousavi Balgehshiri is currently carrying out strategic studies on the programs and strategies of different countries in the field of nuclear energy, advanced nuclear reactor development and also energy planning and modeling. Studying the strategies of advanced nuclear countries in diversifying and supplying nuclear fuel based on the reactor-fuel cycle network is another area of his work. Seyed earned a bachelors degree in chemical engineering from the University of Tabriz, and a masters degree in nuclear engineering, majoring in fuel cycle and materials, from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). Seyed has published several papers and books on nuclear technology. Dr. Bahman Zohuri is currently an Adjunct Professor in Artificial Intelligence Science at Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California, who runs his own consulting company and was previously a consultant at Sandia National Laboratory. Dr. Zohuri earned his bachelors and masters degrees in physics from the University of Illinois. He earned his second masters degree in mechanical engineering, and also his doctorate in nuclear engineering from the University of New Mexico. He owns three patents and has published more than 40 textbooks and numerous journal publications.
