wliieli, even by the generous accounting of atomic energy people, is not really connected with nuclear engineering.
BOOKS Nuclear Engineering lechnieai handbooks are, broadly speaking, of two types. On t h e one hand there are the compendia ot tech nical data or accepted specific design methods; such compendia are sufficient in themselves for carrying out design work in certain fields of engineering. On the other hand, there are collections of general articles which, to quote from the excellent article on chemistry by Lawroski. Burris, and Rogers in Etherington's "Nuclear Eng»':»c»ei;og H a n d book," " . . . are necessarily lc>s useful to the expert than to one who is or ex pects to be engaged primarily in other activities of nuclear engineering and still wishes to understand the language" of related specialties. Nuclear engi neering, comprising mainly the engi neering of nuclear reactors and associ ated processes and equipment, is in a transition stage where some design, but by no means all, can be reduced to handbook formulas. The result is evi dent in the collection of some 5 0 arti cles which comprise Etherington's "Nu clear Engineering Handbook." Some of the articles, such as those by E. P. Blizard on shielding or by Link and Zinn on reactor economics, are filled with defi nite recipes and recommended con stants; others, such as most of t h e arti cles on reactor systems, tend to talk "about" the subject rather than give specific design instructions. The handbook is divided into 14 major sections which, taken together, touch upon all areas of nuclear science and engineering. One finds everything from the Heine-Borel theorem (in Sangren's well written but sometimes not entirely germane article on mathemati cal analysis) to descriptions of canned rotor pumps (in several articles on pressurized water and liquid m e t a l cooled reactors); from applications of isotopes to the theory of metals a n d ra diation damage. Since all the authors are American, it is inevitable that the sections on reactors and associated chemical processes (which cover about 1000 of the volume's 1700 pages) should reflect the pre-eminence of wa ter cooling in U. S. reactor develop ment. I imagine that a British hand book of nuclear engineering would be 90
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different; the reactor theory would stress natural uranium systems more, and the r^avtvir design Ληά descriptions would center around gas-cooled graphite sys tems. haced with an encyclopedia of such enormous scope, a reviewer can com ment critically only on those parts of the subject with which he is intimately familiar. I found the reactor theory articles by Weil and by Dietrich well written and authoritative; they fall be tween a full textbook on reactor theory, in which attention is focused on basic concepts, and a handbook of reactor calculation. I would have preferred to have had the authors devote more at tention to comparison between theory and experiment. As it is, the handbook is almost totally lacking in experimental data OU actual critical masses and mul tiplication factors, and one gets little feeling for how well the recommended constants and calculational procedures account for the experiments. Almost all of the articles are written authoritatively and, as far as this re viewer could tell, with few blunders. Of special interest to readers of C H E M I CAL
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