The development of nuclear propulsio...
Jones, Gareth Michael.

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  • The development of nuclear propulsion in the Royal Navy, 1946-1975
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    正題名/作者: The development of nuclear propulsion in the Royal Navy, 1946-1975/ by Gareth Michael Jones.
    作者: Jones, Gareth Michael.
    出版者: Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2022.,
    面頁冊數: xxv, 287 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
    內容註: 1 Introduction -- Overview -- Chapters -- Literature Review -- Nuclear Historiography -- The Nuclear Submarine in Context -- Summary -- 2 Improving the Submersible -- Introduction of World War II Submarine Developments -- The Soviet Submarine Threat -- Conversions to "Fast Battery Drive" -- HTP and Air-Independent Engines -- The Discovery of Nuclear Fission and Its Application to Submarines -- Discussions on the Development of the Nuclear "Engine" -- 3 The Nuclear Option -- Tube Alloys, US Cooperation and the McMahon Act -- Acquiring an Experienced Team -- Harwell and the Admiralty -- Initial Considerations -- The Mark I Enriched Reactor -- Metropolitan-Vickers and the Problem of Scale -- The End of the Beginning -- 4 The Pressurised Water Reactor -- The Reactor Technical Challenge -- The Brontosaurus in the Museum: Quality Assurance -- Industry Joins the Project -- Miracle Metals -- The Fuel Element Decision -- Neptune: The Zero Energy Experimental Reactor -- 5 HMS/m Dreadnought -- Admiral Hyman G. Rickover USN -- What Price Exchange of Information? -- The Offers to Purchase a US Submarine Reactor -- Choices and Decisions -- Mountbatten Corrections -- Management and Establishment of the Dreadnought Project Team -- Purchase of the S5W Reactor -- Final Adjustments -- 6 Nuclear Training and Dounreay -- Training Facilities -- Off to School -- Practical Training and Jason -- Dounreay Submarine Prototype (DS/MP) -- Dounreay's Future Questioned -- A Very Serious Snag -- HMS/m Valiant -- 7 Future Developments -- Refuelling Preparations -- The Strength of Steel -- Core Development -- Amended Access Agreements -- Core Development Programme (CORDEP) -- Nuclear Development (Submarines): NuDe(S) -- NuDe(S) II-FLIP-ANP -- Core Z -- Secondary Machinery Improvement -- Reporting the Nuclear Navy -- Project Cost -- 8 Conclusions -- Political Problems and Indifference -- Technical Considerations -- The Military Situation -- The Nuclear Propulsion Legacy -- Research in the "Secret (Nuclear) State" -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Contained By: Springer Nature eBook
    標題: Nuclear propulsion - History - 20th century. -
    電子資源: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05129-6
    ISBN: 9783031051296
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