Preface PART I: BASIC REACTOR PHYSICS 1. Neutron Nuclear Reactions 2. Neutron Chain Fission Reactors 3. Neutron Diffusion Theory 4. Neutron Energy Distribution 5. Nuclear Reactor Dynamics 6. Fuel Burnup 7. Nuclear Power Reactors 8. Reactor Safety PART II: ADVANCED REACTOR PHYSICS 9. Neutron Transport Theory 10. Neutron Slowing Down 11. Resonance Absorption 12. Neutron Thermalization 13. Perturbation and Variational Methods 14. Homogenization 15. Nodal and Synthesis Methods 16. Space-Time Neutron Kinetics APPENDICES A. Some Useful Nuclear Data B. Some Useful Mathematical Formulas C. Step Functions, Delta Functions, and Other Exotic Beasts D. Some Properties of Special Functions E. Introduction to Matrices and Matrix Algebra F. Introduction to Laplace Transforms sakriti opis