The Essential CANDU - a textbook on the CANDU nuclear power plant technology
The Essential CANDU is brought to you by UNENE with administrative and sponsorship support from COG. This CANDU Textbook is suitable for students, educators, trainers and working professionals at a target level of senior undergraduate year university engineering and science. The aim is to provide a concise, and consistently told, root storyline that will enable those new to CANDU, whether a student, a manager, a teacher / trainer, a journalist or a discipline area specialist, to learn about CANDU as an overall system and to delve into any specific area as desired. Such a product will significantly support the agile deployment of personnel into the industry and redeployment throughout the industry.
The product is a textbook about nuclear science and engineering pertaining to CANDU reactors using CANDU as the reference design. This distinguishes it from comparable textbooks based on PWR reactors. This is not a product description of CANDU per se.
The textbook is provided free of charge in pdf format below, subject to Copyright restrictions. It is to be a living document; updates will be posted as they become available. It is anticipated that the textbook will appear in printed form at a later date.
Work on this project continues. For further information, report errors, etc., contact Bill Garland, Editor-in-Chief, garlandw@mcmaster.ca or UNENE at unene@mcmaster.ca.
We wish to sincerely thank our sponsors for their financial support and access to technical information, without which this project would not have been possible:
The Essential CANDU
Please note: Chapter material subject to change without notice; revisions are indicated by the date.
The Essential CANDU (pdf 108Mb) - the complete text in one file, last revised 2017.04.12. See below for the content broken out chapter by chapter.
We wish to sincerely thank the following organizations for their financial support and access to technical information, without which this project would not have been possible:
Fair Use: The textbook is provided free of charge in pdf format and is intended for education and training purposes provided full attribution is given. It is provided in good faith as an aid to CANDU awareness, education and training.
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The Essential CANDU, A Textbook on the CANDU Nuclear Power Plant Technology, Editor-in-Chief Wm. J. Garland, <chapter, page, etc, as appropriate>, University Network of Excellence in Nuclear Engineering (UNENE), ISBN 0-9730040. Retrieved from https://www.unene.ca/education/candu-textbook on <insert date of retrieval>.
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