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Nuclear Energy

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Alvin M. Weinberg

    1. Medical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, USA

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Part of the book series: The Collected Works (WIGNER, volume A / 5)

Part of the book sub series: The Scientific Papers (2875)

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Table of contents (45 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Introduction: Eugene Wigner and Nuclear Energy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Eugene Wigner and Nuclear Energy

      • Alvin M. Weinberg
      Pages 3-19

  3. Memoir of the Uranium Project

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Memoir of the Uranium Project

      • Eugene P. Wigner
      Pages 23-130

  4. Articles, Reports, and Memoranda on Nuclear Energy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. The Pre-Chicago Days

      1. For Discussion of the Homogeneous and Lattice Arrangements for Power Plants
        • E. P. Wigner
        Pages 135-141
      2. Approximation for Radius of Sphere Sufficient for Chain Reaction in Light Isotope
        • E. P. Wigner, G. Breit
        Pages 142-148
      3. Diffusion of Slow Neutrons in Absorbing Materials
        • E. P. Wigner
        Pages 149-153
      4. Solution of Boltzmann’s Equation for Monoenergetic Neutrons in an Infinite Homogeneous Medium
        • E. P. Wigner
        Pages 154-164
      5. Review of the Measurements of the Resonance Absorption of Neutrons by Uranium in Bulk
        • E. Creutz, H. Jupnik, T. Snyder, E. P. Wigner
        Pages 165-167
      6. Resonance Absorption of Neutrons by Spheres
        • E. P. Wigner, E. Creutz, H. Jupnik, T. Snyder
        Pages 168-178
      7. Effect of Geometry on Resonance Absorption of Neutrons by Uranium
        • E. Creutz, H. Jupnik, T. Snyder, E. P. Wigner
        Pages 179-183
      8. Effect of Temperature on Total Resonance Absorption of Neutrons by Spheres of Uranium Oxide
        • E. Creutz, H. Jupnik, E. P. Wigner
        Pages 184-187
      9. Absorption of Thermal Neutrons in Uranium
        • E. C. Creutz, R. R. Wilson, E. P. Wigner
        Pages 188-218
      10. Density of Neutrons in Carbon Block with and Without Absorbing Material
        • E. P. Wigner, F. L. Friedman, A. T. Monk, G. N. Plass, A. M. Weinberg
        Pages 219-238

    3. Reactor Engineering at Chicago, 1942–1945, and at Clinton, 1946–1947

      1. Report of the Committee for the Examination of the Moore-Leverett Design of a He-Cooled Plant
        • Fermi, Anderson, Cooper, Wigner
        Pages 244-253
      2. General Considerations Concerning the Lattice Structure
        • A. M. Weinberg, E. P. Wigner
        Pages 254-256
      3. Survey of the Power Plant Problem
        • E. P. Wigner, L. Ohlinger
        Pages 257-261
      4. A Plant with Water Cooling
        • G. Young, E. P. Wigner
        Pages 262-263
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Eugene Wigner is one of the very few scientists that may safely be describedas creators of 20th-century physics. This volume of his Collected Works is devoted to his contributions to nuclear energy. In his Introduction and Annotations A.M. Weinberg surveys Wigner's contributions to nuclear-reaction physics and nuclear engineering, at the same time giving a glimpse of the early history of nuclear-reactor technology. Wigner himself gave a lively and critical account, which is published in this volume for the first time. Furthermore the book contains forty-two reports and memoranda from 1941 to 1945 and twelve of Wigner's many patents relating to nuclear energy.

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"...it is a highly desirable addition to the library in any college where a physics program is in place, and it is an indispensable addition in any school where nuclear engineering is also taught." - American Journal of Physics
"I would recommend it to any budding nuclear phycist - and the older ones too!" - Australian & New Zealand Physicist

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  • Medical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, USA

    Alvin M. Weinberg

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