First off, MIT has an awesome open-source roster of basically their entire ungraduate and graduate nuclear engineering ciriculum:
- MIT Open Courseware
- Intro to Nuclear Engineering & Ionizing Radition - 35 1-hour videos
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- Intro to Nuclear Engineering & Ionizing Radition - 35 1-hour videos
This includes classes, lectures, references to the textbooks they used. It is such a gold mine.
- Duderstadt and Hamilton’s Nuclear Reactor Analysis is old, but covers a lot of topics to about the level of detail that you would want to generally understand what’s going on. PDF here
- Todreas and Kazimi’s Nuclear Systems goes into more details about thermal fluids and heat transfer
- Karl Ott’s Nuclear Reactor Dynamics is a good resource on transient/time-dependent reactor behavior
- Allan Waltar's Fast Breeder Reactors covers only one topic, but in great depth. It is pricey.
- [Intro to Nuclear Engineering]https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Nuclear-Engineering-John-Lamarsh/dp/0201824981/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=nuclear+engineer+lamarsh&qid=1620074691&sr=8-4) - Lamarsh & Baratta - a classic undergraduate textbook
- Nuclear Reactor Theory - by Bell and Glasstone - Deeper text on reactor analysis
The DOE has a number of great historical publications here
- Hewlett and Holl's Atoms for Peace and War is a kind of history of nuclear policy in America in the 1950s. PDF here
- Alvin Weinberg's The First Nuclear Era is a first-hand account of everything nuclear at the start of it all.
- Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors - PRISM - great intro, only 15 pages
- The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World - great MIT Intro book (275 pages)
- JANIS - cross section website
- Brookhaven Table of Nuclides
- GMCmap - a fun place to watch crowd-sourced Geiger counter readings around the country, from GQ Electronics, GMC-model Geiger counters
- Illinois EnergyProf - I love this guy.