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Nov 15, 2024
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ME 4070 - Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear engineering, including nuclear reactions, radiation detection and measurement, reactor criticality, principles of reactor control, radiation shielding, effects of radiation of materials, uses of radioactive materials.
Requisites: ET 3200 and ME 3122
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to calculate core reactivity changes with changing operational conditions.
- Students will be able to calculate heat generation and transport rates, within the fuel matrix, core fluids, and through heat exchangers.
- Students will be able to calculate neutron transport properties and reactor kinetics.
- Students will be able to calculate thermal conversion efficiencies for nuclear energy processes.
- Students will be able to calculate transport rates in two-phase flows.
- Students will be able to describe advanced design and safety improvements in advanced nuclear reactors.
- Students will be able to describe environmental concerns of nuclear fuel usage and mitigation techniques.
- Students will be able to explain principles of nuclear reactor design, including those of light water reactors, and fast breeder reactors.
- Students will be able to describe the basic nuclear reactions, including physics of fission and fusion.
- Students will be able to explain the fabrication process of nuclear fuels.
- Students will be able to describe the general properties of nuclei (binding energy, statistics, cross sections, etc.)
- Students will be able to describe the physical and chemical effects of radiation on atoms and molecules.
- Students will be able to describe the safety characteristics of LWR and FBR.
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