Reactor engineering +

Course title:

Nuclear facilities and their classification, design, features and significance.
Nuclear fuel cycle.
Fundamentals of nuclear physics: chain reactions.
Radioactivity: radiation effects, dose estimates, and barriers.
Reactor physics: criticality, neutron transport.
Reactor kinetics: delayed neutrons, reactivity control.
Nuclear fuel, burnup, products, applications.
Reactor energy removal.
Economics and design of nuclear reactors.
Boiling and pressurized light water reactors. Fuel, operation.
Other types of nuclear reactors.
Reactor safety fundamentals.
Safety systems of nuclear power plants. Operation of nuclear power plants.
Development of new methods of energy production based on fission or splitting of nuclei: new designs of nuclear power plants.

R. A. Knief, Nuclear engineering, Theory and Technology of Commercial Nuclear Power, 2nd edition, American Nuclear Society, 2008. (1st Edition, Taylor and Francis, 1992)
Information Library of World Nuclear Association, http://www.world-nuclear.org/

Objectives: Understand the fundamental principles of reactor technology and energetics.
To gain knowledge about the importance and operation of nuclear reactors and nuclear facilities.
Develop a sense of responsibility for the safe use of nuclear energy and environmental protection.

Competences:
Fundamentals for further specialization in other areas of nuclear engineering

Knowledge and understanding:
Ability to understand operation of nuclear reactors and related operations and activities.
Ability to apply standard methods, procedures and processes.
Commitment to professional ethics.

Application:
Use of standard methods, procedures and processes in practice.

Reflection:
Understanding of the theory and experiences in practice, critical evaluation of compliance between theoretical principles and practical behaviour.

Transferable skills:
Skills of the use of domestic and foreign literature and other sources, collecting and interpreting data, the use of information and communication technologies, identification and problem solving, critical analysis, synthesis, teamwork.

Lectures, where students learn about the theory, research seminars, project work, individual work, guided individual study.

Final written exam
Oral exam
grading: 5 (fail), 6-10 (pass) (according to the Statute of UL)

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