The text is designed for junior and senior level Nuclear Engineering students. The third edition of this highly respected text offers the most current and complete introduction to nuclear engineering available. Introduction to Nuclear Engineering has been thoroughly updated with new information on French, Russian, and Japanese nuclear reactors. All units have been revised to reflect current standards. In addition to the numerous end-of-chapter problems, computer exercises have been added.

This volume addresses the impact of cognitivism on teaching and learning in three ways: the changes in the ways educators have come to view the learner as a result of cognitive theories; the ways the immediate environment of the learner can be altered according to cognitive principles; and the progress cognitive psychologists have made directly toward the teaching of specific subjects.