Technical Documents related to the Canadian Nuclear Enterprise can be categorized in a number of ways, including:

Documents and Courses

• Nuclear Engineering Courses - A list of all university level courses in Canada that are nuclear related (compiled in 2006).
• NucEng www.nuceng.ca - A university level Nuclear Engineering site. Contains course material and class recordings. Good starting point for the nuclear student. By Bill Garland
• CANTEACH https://canteach.candu.org - An extensive public domain repository of CANDU technical documents.
• UNENE www.unene.ca - The University Network of Excellence in Nuclear Engineering - Contains course material and class recordings.
• CNSC https://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/resources/canadas-nuclear-history/html/aecb_historical.cfm - CNSC archive of historical documents.
• CNSC https://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/resources/index.cfm - CNSC resource page.
• Nuclear Criticality Safety Engineer Training - from the US DOE.
• ocw.mit.edu/courses/#nuclear-engineering - MIT Nuclear Engineering Courses
• ANL Facility Decommissioning Training Course - www.dd.anl.gov/ddtraining/

Introductory Nuclear Educational Material

• The Essential CANDU - a CANDU Textbook - UNENE is pleased to host "The Essential CANDU" textbook, developed jointly with the CANDU Owners Group. The textbook explains the science and engineering of nuclear reactors, with emphasis on the CANDU design; and provides a unique and comprehensive learning resource for students, educators, trainers and working professionals. The material is suitable for the senior undergraduate or graduate level in university engineering and science. The textbook also supplements and augments the course materials provided to students enrolled in the UNENE M.Eng. The textbook is provided free of charge in pdf format.
• Reactor Drawings Wonderful wall chart drawings of nuclear reactors as published in Nuclear Engineering International, collected and reproduced by the University of New Mexico.
• CNA Education Resources The Nuclear Science Technology High School Curriculum Website is a tool developed to explain nuclear energy to the public and specifically to students from grades 9�12. The website includes fact sheets, instructional media, videos, animations explaining scientific information, games, electronic publications and other resource materials. More than 50 lesson plans , classroom activities, project descriptions and question and answer sheets will be made available to teachers through their respective Ministries of Education. The modules focus on eight key areas: Canada's Nuclear History, Atomic Theory, What is Radiation?, Biological Effects of Radiation, World Energy Sources, Nuclear Technology at Work, Safety in the Nuclear Industry, and Career information.
• CNSC's educational resources pages containing information tailored to specific grades as well as links to other sources.
• How and why is CANDU designed the way it is - an introduction.
• COG Resource Centre - CANDU info from CANDU Owners Group.
• Cameco Uranium 101 - This looks at the uranium mining industry, its major players, and demonstrates how uranium fits into the nuclear fuel cycle. It also helps you understand at a basic level what uranium is, what radiation is, how nuclear energy compares to other forms of power, and how uranium is being mined safely throughout the world.
• Center for Nuclear Science and Technology Information - an initiative of the American Nuclear Society to make the complex nuclear world easier to understand for the general public.
• The ABC's of Nuclear Science - A brief introduction sponsored by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
• UIC - Uranium Information Centre, Melbourne, Australia. Information on nuclear energy for electricity, and uranium for it. Great educational information at the high school level.
• Nuclear Science and Engineering - an introduction by the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) , India. This material was graciously supplied by P.Swaminathan , Director Electronics and Instrumentation Group, IGCAR, Kalpakkam, July 2005.
• World Nuclear Association Public Information Service - lots of general educational material here
• What is nuclear? - No-nonsense public education on the use of nuclear energy to help with the energy problem
• The Virtual Nuclear Tourist - Basic information about the different types of plants and their principle of operation, by Joseph Gonyeau. Well worth the visit.

• Nuclear Acronyms

Energy Generation and Societal Context

• Sustainable Energy - without the hot air by David MacKay - Quantification of energy issues, a must read for those wishing to make informed decisions - an essential book that is free in pdf form.
• Energy Widgets : Worldwide energy consumption (by country � figures updated every second); Worldwide energy production (Crude oil, coal, natural gas, solar, wind, updated every second); Alternative energy production (by method: nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, etc.). Crude oil clocks, Greenhouse gas counters, Oil & Gas news + Many more...

Computer Codes / Simulations / Simulators

• Henrick Ericksson's Nuclear Power Plant Simulation Java Applet - Pretty neat! - Please note that you must have a Java compatible browser.
• CANDU desktop simulator by CTI SImulation International - Nice! This is the simulator used in the McMaster University course Engineering Physics 6P03 and UNENE UN0801 (Nuclear Power Plant Systems and Operation).
• Radiation Safety Information Computational Cente (RSIC) - Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hundreds of industry standard nuclear codes.
• The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Databank is a specialised agency within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and development (OECD), an intergovernmental organisation of industrialised countries, based in Paris, France. Codes listed here are not available to Canada and US since the codes are available through RSIC (see above).
• T-2 Nuclear Information Service - This service is run by Group T-16 (Nuclear Physics) of the Theoretical Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is operated by the University of California for the US Department of Energy. Contains reactor physics codes, data and educational tours.
• See also the nuceng.ca/download page for more code.

General

Journals

• Journal of Nuclear Materials

Papers and Reports

• Online Approved DOE Technical Standards - You can find references on chemistry, physics, mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity, reactor physics, health physics, etc.

Books

• The Essential CANDU - a CANDU Textbook - UNENE is pleased to host "The Essential CANDU" textbook, developed jointly with the CANDU Owners Group. The textbook explains the science and engineering of nuclear reactors, with emphasis on the CANDU design; and provides a unique and comprehensive learning resource for students, educators, trainers and working professionals. The material is suitable for the senior undergraduate or graduate level in university engineering and science. The textbook also supplements and augments the course materials provided to students enrolled in the UNENE M.Eng. The textbook is provided free of charge in pdf format.
• Tammemagi, Hans and Jackson, David, "Unlocking the Atom", McMaster University Press, 2002.
• Reynolds, Albert B., "Bluebells and Nuclear Energy", Cogito Books, 1996. ISBN 0-944838-634 . Ordering information .
• "Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering," by BJ Lewis, EN Onder and AA.Prudil can be ordered from Wiley or through the Canadian Distributor:Laurenne Ghosalkar, WILEY, 90 Eglinton Ave East, Suite 300, Toronto, Ontario M4P 1A6 Canada, Phone: (416) 646-4570, Email: lghosalkar@wiley.com . There is also a companion website containing the problem solutions, teaching slides in power point for all chapters and course outlines to aid in any course instruction with the use of the book.
  
• Nuclear energy : principles, practices, and prospects," by David Bodansky, ­ 2nd ed., ISBN 0-387-20778-3 , 2004, Springer-Verlag New York. Springer ordering information .

Overall Reactor Systems

CANDU Reactors

• Wikipedia page on Nuclear Power in Canada
• Wikipedia page on CANDU Reactors
• CANDU Design Evolution Summary

Next Generation Designs

• GIF - Generation IV International Forum (GIF) is a cooperative international endeavor organized to carry out the research and development (R&D) needed to establish the feasibility and performance capabilities of the next generation nuclear energy systems. Lots of great information here about next generation reactors including a 97 page report on A Technology Roadmap for Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems .

Radiation

Papers and Reports

• Canada www.nuceng.ca/refer/radiation/radiation.htm - A collection of information of radiation and doses.
• CanadaThe following documents are important as background information, as we approach the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident.
• 1. Nuclear Energy and Health: And the Benefits of Low-Dose Radiation Hormesis, Jerry M. Cuttler and Myron Pollycove, Dose Response. 2009; 7(1): 52�89, available at: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664640/
• 2. Commentary on Using LNT for Radiation Protection and Risk Assessment, Jerry M. Cuttler, Dose Response. 2010; 8(3): 378�383, Available at: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939692/
• 3. Editorial: Is Airport Body-Scan Radiation a Health Risk? Jerry M. Cuttler, Dose-Response. 2011; 9(1): 1-5, Available at: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057632/
• 4. Observations on the Chernobyl Disaster and LNT, Zbigniew Jaworowski, Dose Response. 2010; 8(2): 148�171, Available at: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2889503/
• Argonne National Labs - Radiation Fact Sheets for Selected Environmental Contaminants to Support Health Risk Analyses. Really nicely done. Just in case the link should disappear in the future, here is the pdf version (2.4Mb) of the chart.
• Radiation Dose Chart from the American Nuclear Society - Our daily exposure to radiation comes from numerous sources within our environment. The annual dose to which we are subjected depends upon where and how we live, and what we eat, drink, and breathe. This easy-to-use chart shows how to estimate that dose.
• H.J. Moe, Operational Health Physics Training - Covers Reactor Operations, Particle Accelerators, and X-Ray Devices as well as the basics. It's a "Must Read", apparently.

Books

• Hussein, E.M.A, Computed Radiation Imaging: Physics and Mathematics of Forward and Inverse Problems, to be published by Elsevier.
• Hussein, E.M.A., Radiation Mechanics: Principles & Practice, Elsevier, Oxford, ISBN 978-0-0804-5053-7 , 322 pages, Aug. 2007.
• Hussein, E.M.A., Handbook on Radiation Probing, Gauging, Imaging and Analysis, Volume I: Basics and Techniques, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-1294-2 , 464 pages, May 2003. ( www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-1294-2 ).
• >Hussein, E.M.A., Handbook on Radiation Probing, Gauging, Imaging and Analysis, Volume II: Applications and Design, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-1295-0 , 526 pages, June 2003. ( www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-1295-0 ).

Reactor Physics

Journals

• Annals of Nuclear Energy
• Nuclear Science and Engineering
• Nuclear Technology
• Fusion Technology
• Nuclear Engineering and Design - an international journal affiliated with the European Nuclear Society (ENS) and with the International Association for Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (IASMiRT)
• Nu-Power - an international journal of nuclear power (India)

Papers and Reports

• IAEA TEC-DOC
• 233: Research Reactor Core Conversion from the Use of Highly Enriched Uranium to the Use of Low Enriched Uranium Fuels Guidebook , 1980 (pdf 37Mb) protected
• Argonne National Laboratory
• ANL 5800 - Reactor Physics Constants
• DOE Fundamentals Handbook, Nuclear Physics and Reactor Theory
• Volume 1 of 2 (142 pages, pdf 3464 kb)
• Volume 2 of 2 (128 pages, pdf 1988 kb)

Textbooks

• Bell, G.I., and Glasstone, S., Nuclear Reactor Theory , Reinhold, 1970.
• James J. Duderstadt and Louis J. Hamilton, Nuclear reactor Analysis , John Wiley & Sons, New York, ISBN 0-471-22363-8 , 1976.
• Henry, Allen F., Nuclear Reactor Analysis , MIT Press. Cambridge, Mass., 1975.
• Glasstone, S., and Edlund, M.C., The Elements of Nuclear Reactor Theory , Reinhold, NY, 1952.
• Glasstone, S., and Sesonske, A., Nuclear Reactor Engineering , 3rd ed., VanNostrand, 1981.
• Lamarsh, J.R., Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Theory , Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1966.
• John R. Lamarsh, Introduction to Nuclear Engineering , Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1983, ISBN 0-201-14200-7 .
• Meghreblian, R.V., and Holmes, D.K., Reactor Analysis , McGraw-Hill, New York, 1960.
• M. M. R. Williams The Slowing Down and Thermalization of Neutrons , North-Holland Publishing Company - Amsterdam, 582 pages, 1966. https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/slowing-down-thermalization-neutrons/author/williams/
• M. M. R. Williams, Mathematical Methods in Particle Transport Theory , Butterworths, London, 430 pages, 1971. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2601001
• M. M. R. Williams, Random Processes in Nuclear Reactors , Pergamon Press Oxford New York Toronto Sydney, 243 pages, 1974. Free. https://www.elsevier.com/books/random-processes-in-nuclear-reactors/williams/978-0-08-017920-9
• Murray, Raymond, L., Nuclear Energy , Pergamon Press, New York, 1975.
• Weinberg, A.M. and Wigner, E.P., The Physical Theory of Neutron Chain Reactors , Chicago U.P., 1958.
• Zweifel, P.F., Reactor Physics , McGraw-Hill, New York, 1973.
• Kazys Almenas and Richard Lee, Nuclear Engineering: an introduction , 566 pages, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0-387-53960-3 , 1992. Includes 1 computer disk of simple codes. McMaster Thode Library call number TK 9145.A44.
• Rozon, Daniel, "Introduction to Reactor Kinetics", Polytechnique International Press, Montreal, 1998. ISBN 2-553-007000-0 . This is a new English translation of Daniel Rozon's 1992 book "Introduction a cintique des racteurs nuclaires."

Thermalhydraulics

Textbooks

• A.E. Bergles et al., Two Phase Flow and Heat Transfer in the Power and Process Industries, Hemisphere Publishing, 1981.
• R.B. Bird, W.E. Stewart and E.N. Lightfoot, Transport Phenomena, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1960.
• J.C. Collier, Convective Boiling and Condensation, McGraw Hill, 1972.
• Crane, Flow of Fluids Through Valves, Fittings and Pipe, 410 C (Engineering Units), 410 m (metric), 1957.
• I.G. Currie, Fundamental Mechanics of Fluids, McGraw Hill, Inc., 1974.
• J.M. Delhaye et al., Thermohydraulics of Two Phase Systems for Industrial Design and Nuclear Engineering, Hemisphere Publishing, 1981.
• Ginoux, Two Phase Flows and Heat Transfer with Application to Nuclear Reactor Design Problems, Hemisphere Publishing, 1981.
• L. Haar, J.S. Gallagher, and G.S Knell, NBS NRC STEAM TABLES: Thermodynamic and Transport Properties and Computer Programs for Vapor and Liquid States of Water in SI Units, Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, 1984.
• Y. Hsu and R. Graham, Transport Processes in Boiling and Two Phase Systems, Hemisphere Publishing, 1976.
• Idel'chik, Handbook of Hydraulic Resistance Coefficients of Local Resistance and of Friction, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. (Translation),1960.
• M. ISHII, "Thermo-fluid Dynamic Theory of Two-phase Flow", 1975, Eyrolles (Paris)
• ITT Grinnel Corp., Piping Design and Engineering, Providence, Rhode Island, 1973.
• John H. Lienhard IV, Professor, University of Houston and John H. Lienhard V, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, A Heat Transfer Textbook, 4th edition - Free handbook on heat transfer web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahtt.html
• Meyer, C.A. et al., Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Steam, ASME, New York, 1967.
• D.S. Millar, Internal Flow, A Guide to Losses in Pipe and Duct Systems, British Hydromechanics Research Association, 1971.
• Patrick J. Roache, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Hermosa Publishers, P.O. Box 8172, Albuquerque, NM, 87108, 1976.
• James H. Rust, "Nuclear Power Plant Engineering", Haralson Publishing Company, P.O. Box 20366, Atlanta, Georgia 30325, 1979.
• F.W Sears and G.L. Salinger, Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory, and Statistical Thermodynamics, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, ISBN 0-201-06894-X , 1975, Third Edition, 1975.
• Neil E. Todreas and Mujid S. Kazimi, Nuclear Systems I, Thermal Hydraulic Fundamentals, Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, 1990, ISBN 0-89116-935-0 (v. 1)
• L.S. Tong, Boiling Heat Transfer and Two Phase Flow, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1965.

Safety

Textbooks

• Norman J. McCormick, "Reliability and Risk Analysis, Academic Press", 1981, ISBN 0-12-482360-2 .
• David J. Smith, "Reliability Maintainability and Risk, Practical Methods for Engineers", 1993, ISBN 0 7506 08544.

Web Resources and Technical Documents

General

• www.iaea.org/Publications/
• www.osti.gov/bridge/index.jsp
• www.nucleonica.com/index.aspx

Nuclear Data

• www-nds.iaea.org/
• www.nndc.bnl.gov/
• www.oecd-nea.org/dbdata/
• t2.lanl.gov/
• ie.lbl.gov/toi.html LBNL Isotopes Project - LUNDS Universitet - Nuclear Data Dissemination Home Page