Anyone know a reactor physics book better than Duderstadt and Hamilton?

[random_soldier]

I really like the book for how much it covers. There's not a single topic that's missed that is relevant to nuclear reactor design/analysis. Often other books can miss a topic or two. It's just that the style is not to the point and often time is wasted talking about things that are irrelevant or won't be explained, at least until way later.

 

[Astronuc]

Duderstadt and Hamilton, like Lamarsh's books, is a classic, and one will find deficiencies in any text. It is challenging to cover every possible subject, partly because the subject is so complex, since there are many types of nuclear reactor systems requiring different elaborations on similar topics that are system dependent, e.g., thermal vs epithermal vs fast dominant energy spectra, or transport vs diffusion theory.

 

[random_soldier]

I think something that covers LWRs would be sufficient. That's what D&H seems to cover mostly and that's pretty much what I'm looking for. I don't mind minor excursions to other types but D&H seems to do only that and I'm fine with that.

 

[Astronuc]

I used Lamarsh's Nuclear Reactor Theory during my undergraduate program, and D&H during my graduate program. I used D&H to teach nuclear reactor theory as a teaching assistant, and it is pretty basic material. So much has changed in nuclear fuel design and core/fuel management since I was in grad school more than 30 years ago.

The only other texts I of which I am aware are:

Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Physics, by Robert E. Masterson, Taylor & Francis, 2017
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315118055
It's relatively new, and I don't know much about it. I recommend comparing the table of contents with other texts. There is another book by the same author, Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics: An Introduction to Nuclear Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, 2019
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315226231

Nuclear Reactor Physics, 2nd, Completely Revised and Enlarged Edition, by Weston M. Stacey, Wiley, June 2007, which is probably considered a modern classic after the older classic by Lamarsh.
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Nuclear...+Revised+and+Enlarged+Edition-p-9783527611058

There is a 3rd Edition of Stacey's book
Nuclear Reactor Physics, 3rd Edition, 2018
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Nuclear+Reactor+Physics,+3rd+Edition-p-9783527812301

Yet another book, Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering
Brent J. Lewis, E. Nihan Onder, Andrew A. Prudil
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Fundamentals+of+Nuclear+Engineering-p-9781119271499

I've known Lewis about three decades, since I've used some of his research and experimental work, and I only recently met Prudil a few years ago through a mutual colleague and friend.