Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering Second Edition

Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering is a perfect introduction to the field. It starts gently enough so that anyone with a basic high school understanding of chemistry and physics can easily pick up the quantitative and qualitative ideas behind the operations of subatomic particles. The graphics are an appropriate companion to the text and the indices and appendices are extremely useful for performing calculations. The only potential downside would regard the end of chapter problems tending towards a "plug and chug" nature.

This book overall does a good job discussing the required theory for nuclear engineering, and then discusses several applications. Some of its discussion is a little hard to follow, but that's likely due to the quantum mechanical nature of the material, not the author.

This book has been more than helpful for me and I use it as reference throughout the rest of my nuclear classes. The book explains clearly how the physics and decays and excitations work

But why only 4 stars? There is no answer for problems! But this is a "common disease" in nuclear eng. textbooks, in my humble and limited opinion & sample size.The authors give clear explanations and derivations are good too.I really suggest it as an nuclear introductory course for anyone, also not nuclear engineering students.I have tried Lamarsh before, but it is hard to follow. Duderstadt & Hamilton is great too, but it deals "only" with reactors.

Cool and easy to read

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The book is great, well organized,full of examples,detailed derivations.The charts, tables are comprehansive . Hope they will write more books/

I'm a senior in Mechanical Engineering and I'm using this book for an elective I thought would be fun. I'm not some guy that is blaming poor test scores on a book, I'm genuinely disappointed by it.This text is one of the worst I've ever had to deal with. There are very few examples in the book and the solutions for the problems are nowhere to be found online. The lack of good examples can make a simple question take obscene amounts of time.The book is formatted poorly as well, which makes it difficult to find things when you're flipping back and forth between pages. There are a few pictures and graphs but most pages are just block text which can take quite a bit of time to wade through if you don't already know exactly where to look.Unfortunately most people buying this book don't have the option to choose something else, however, if you're a professor wanting to change books, I would recommend looking elsewhere.