Engineering of nuclear reactors

Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session

2.001 Mechanics and Materials I

2.005 Thermal-Fluids Engineering I

22.05 Neutron Science and Reactor Physics (undergraduate) or 22.211 Nuclear Reactor Physics I (graduate)

22.06 Engineering of Nuclear Systems

Understand and model the thermal-hydraulic and mechanical phenomena which are key to the effective, reliable and safe design and operation of nuclear systems.

The required textbook is Todreas, Neil E., and Mujid S. Kazimi. Nuclear Systems Volume 1: Thermal Hydraulic Fundamentals. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2011. ISBN: 9781439808870. [Preview with Google Books] (Revised Printing. CRC Press, July 2015.)

Textbook readings are supplemented by MIT notes on structural mechanics, various handouts, and other references as listed on the readings page.

Course introduction

Reactor types

Thermal design principles

Conservation equations

Incompressible fluid, ideal gas and pure substance models

Thermodynamic analysis of nuclear plants: Power cycle examples

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