Restart: The Alabama Diary【電子書籍】[ Arthur Ruggles ]

＜p＞Challenges emerge when one restarts a complicated machine after 22 years lying dormant. These challenges are amplified when one also decides to upgrade the machine in concert with the restart. In this book the complicated machine is a Nuclear Electric Generating Station, and the restart and upgrades budget exceeds 2 Billion dollars over a five year schedule. This project is an opportunity for a Professor on Sabbatical to learn about reactor operations while contributing to the plant recovery and upgrade. This book is taken from his diary. The perspective of the Professor is not pro or anti-nuclear. His allegiance is to mother nature, and fissioning atoms is just another way to heat water to make steam for a turbine-generator set. His enthusiasm for nuclear power is muted by the reality that many other options exist for making electricity. Alternately, only one energy form as power dense as nuclear fission exists, and it is not yet harnessed, so the real question may be why one would．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る