Integration of reactor design, operations, and safety
Master
In Maynard (USA)
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Master
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Maynard (USA)
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This course integrates studies of engineering sciences, reactor physics and safety assessment into nuclear power plant design. Topics include materials issues in plant design and operations, aspects of thermal design, fuel depletion and fission-product poisoning, and temperature effects on reactivity, safety considerations in regulations and operations, such as the evolution of the regulatory process, the concept of defense in depth, General Design Criteria, accident analysis, probabilistic risk assessment, and risk-informed regulations.
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- Regulations
- IT risk
- Materials
- Design
- Risk
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Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session
22.211, 22.312
There is no required textbook for the course. Readings will be assigned from various regulatory, industry, and scientific sources.
Students are required to complete nine homework problems and a midterm paper on national nuclear energy strategy.
The score of each homework problem will be adjusted in accordance with the following relative weighting:
Problem 6 due (topic of Lec #13)
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Integration of reactor design, operations, and safety