本书按照高职高专核电专业教学大纲编写。编者在多年教学实践经验的基础上，根据该类专业的要求、经济全球化大背景带来的就业方式多样化的形势需要，力求向学生提供未来工作岗位所需的专业英语知识和技能，为培养学生更好地使用涉外业务英语而编写了本书。本书具有良好的通用性，此外，本书遵照高等技术教育的应用性特征，使专业英语具有较强的实用性和针对性，在追求通俗易懂、简明扼要、便于教学和自学的指导思想下编写而成。
本书由综合篇、技术篇和设备篇三部分组成，共20个单元。每个单元由课文、课后习题、应用英语三部分组成，课文内容围绕核反应堆类型进行编写，以行业内主流的压水堆型核电站为例，介绍了从事核电专业工作的相关基础技术和知识点。每篇课文和材料选材精练，符合高职高专学生实际，文后配有生词短语表和相应的练习，促进学生勤思考，学练结合。

Part One Synthesis
Lesson One Nuclear Energy, Carbon Emission Peaking and Carbon Neutralization
Lesson Two Types of Nuclear Reactor
Lesson Three Nuclear Power Plant
Lesson Four Types of Nuclear Power Plant
Lesson Five Working Principle of PWR Nuclear Power Plant
Lesson Six Active and Passive Safety Systems of Nuclear Power Plants (Ⅰ)
Lesson Seven Active and Passive Safety Systems of Nuclear Power Plants (Ⅱ)
Lesson Eight Commissioning and Handover Process of Nuclear Power Plant
Further Reading Progress of China's Nuclear Power Industry
Part Two Technology
Lesson Nine System Blocking
Lesson TenWater-hammer Effect
Lesson Eleven Nuclear Power Fire Protection Lesson Twelve Nuclear Emergency Response
Lesson Thirteen Nuclear Power Emergency Treatment Lesson Fourteen Nuclear Safety Culture
Lesson FifteenRadiation Protection
Further Reading AP1000 Nuclear Power Technique.
Part Three Equipment
Lesson Sixteen Pressure Vessels
Lesson SeventeenFuel Assembly
Lesson Eighteen The Bumable Poison
Lesson Nineteen Containment
Lesson Twenty Steam Generator
Further Reading Xing Ji，the Chief Designer of Hualong-1
Appendix A Glossary
Appendix B System List for Nuclear Power Project
Appendix C Abbreviation
References