Course

ME-464: Introduction to nuclear engineering

Lectures in this course (27)

Covers the basics of nuclear engineering, reactor technology, safety barriers, reactor types, and thermodynamics of pressurized water reactors.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering

Introduces nuclear engineering, covering reactor types, components, and thermodynamics, including pressurized water reactors and boiling water reactors.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering

Covers the basics of nuclear physics, benefits of nuclear energy, reactor classification, fission reactions, and decay heat removal.

Nuclear Reactions: Basics and Applications

Explores nuclear reactions, radioactivity, energy release, and decay heat removal in reactors.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering: Chain Reactions and Fuel Cycles

Explores chain reactions, criticality, reactor types, and fuel cycles in nuclear engineering.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering

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

Neutron Physics: Reactor Fundamentals

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

Neutron Physics: Reactor Behavior

Covers neutron physics in nuclear reactors, including criticality, fission, and neutron distribution.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering: Reactor Kinetics

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

Reactor Kinetics: Introduction to Nuclear Engineering

Introduces the fundamental concepts of reactor kinetics in nuclear engineering, covering neutron behavior, critical conditions, and reactor control mechanisms.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering: Thermalhydraulics

Covers reactivity, stability, heat transfer, and boiling crisis in nuclear engineering thermalhydraulics.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering

Covers the importance of delayed neutrons in reactor response and the thermalhydraulics of reactor cores.

Radiation Protection: Basics

Covers the interaction of radiations with matter, dose concepts, and radiation shielding.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering: Safety Basics

Introduces nuclear engineering safety basics, emphasizing safety barriers, redundancy, and defense-in-depth concepts to prevent accidents.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering

Introduces nuclear engineering concepts, covering reactor technology, physics, safety measures, fission reactions, and reactor safety.

Nuclear Reactor Safety Principles

Covers nuclear reactor safety principles, radionuclides, safety barriers, decay heat, criticality experiments, and emergency cooling systems.

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.

Nuclear Reactor Physics

Covers exercises on nuclear reactor physics, including mass calculations, heat evacuation, radioactive equilibrium, and critical parameters.

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.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering

Explores nuclear engineering topics such as reactor technology, safety principles, and emergency core cooling systems.