Design Analysis of Nuclear Reactors

Catalog Description

• Principles and techniques of economic analysis to determine capital and operating costs, fuel management and fuel cycle optimization, thermal limits on reactor performance, thermal converters, and fast breeders; control and transient problems, reactor safety and licensing, release of radioactivity from reactors and fuel processing plants. Offered even-numbered years.

Course Prerequisites

• NE 150
• NE 161

Textbook(s) and/or other required material

• To be announced

Class schedule

• Three hours of lecture per week

Assessment of student progress toward course objectives

• Research plan: 5%
• Progress report: 10%
• Oral presentation: 25%
• Project summary report: 60%