Nuclear Reactor Safety and Sustainability

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Introduces nuclear engineering, covering reactions, chain reactions, fuel cycle, criticality, and multiplication factors.

Nuclear Engineering: Safety Systems and Reactor Protection

Explores nuclear engineering safety systems, reactor protection, and radioactive material containment, emphasizing safety margins and design base accidents.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering: Reactor Kinetics

Introduces reactor kinetics in nuclear engineering, covering reactivity control, critical conditions, moderator materials, and chain reaction control.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering: Wrap-up

Covers a wide range of topics in nuclear engineering, including reactor technology, safety challenges, and Generation IV concepts.

Neutron Kinetics: Reactivity and Reactor Dynamics

Explores reactivity equations, stable reactor periods, and the impact of reactivity variations on reactor safety.

The Diffusion of Neutrons

Covers the transport of neutrons, scalar neutron flux, neutron currents, and more, along with fuel cycles and types of nuclear reactors.

Multiplying media: Analytical Solutions and Non-leakage Probability

Covers media containing fuel, analytical solutions, and non-leakage probability for thermal and fast neutrons.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering: Gen IV Reactors

Introduces Generation IV nuclear reactors, focusing on fast-spectrum reactors and their sustainability, breeding of fissile fuel, properties of coolants, historical development, advantages, disadvantages, and key challenges.

Neutron Physics: Reactor Fundamentals

Explores neutron physics in nuclear reactors, covering criticality, fuel cycles, reactor characteristics, and slowing down processes.

Advanced LWR Technology

Explores burnup algorithms, time-step discretization, LWR fuel evolution, spent fuel composition, refueling techniques, and boric acid control in PWRs.