Lectures in course PHYS-443: Physics of nuclear reactors

Introduction and Review of Nuclear Physics

Covers the basics of nuclear physics, including nucleus composition, binding energy, mass defect, nuclear reactions, and radioactivity.

Introduction to Nuclear Physics

Introduces nuclear reactor physics, covering nucleus composition, binding energy, and radioactivity.

Introduction and Review of Nuclear Physics

Covers the basics of nuclear physics, including reactor physics, neutron interactions, fission, fusion, and radioactivity.

Neutron Transport and Resonances

Explores neutron interactions, resonances, fission barriers, and energy release in fission reactions, highlighting the importance of kinetic energy and the differences in fission probabilities for various isotopes.

Interactions of Neutrons with Matter

Explores the interaction of neutrons with matter through cross sections, scattering, absorption, and energy dependencies.

Interactions of Neutrons with Matter

Explores the interaction of neutrons with matter, covering cross sections, reaction rates, scattering, absorption, energy dependence, and the Doppler effect.

Nuclear Reactor Physics: Reactor Core Analysis

Covers the analysis of reactor cores in nuclear physics and their impact on performance and safety.

Interactions of Neutrons with Matter

Covers the interaction of neutrons with matter, including cross sections and mechanisms.

Nuclear Physics Basics: Exercise Sessions

Covers exercises on nuclear physics basics, including binding energy, fission reactions, and decay activities.

Interaction of Neutrons with Matter: Nuclear Fission

Covers Doppler effects, anisotropic scattering corrections, and nuclear fission in reactors.

Nuclear Reactor Physics: Losses and Fission Reaction Rates

Covers losses in nuclear reactors and their impact on fission reaction rates.

Nuclear Fission: Total Cross Section Analysis

Analyzes the total cross section data for nuclear fission, covering energy dependence, transport, reactions, uncertainties, fission fragments, and radiological hazards.

Nuclear Reactor Design

Explores the design principles of pressurized water reactors and boiling water reactors, emphasizing safety measures and reactor stability.

Nuclear Fission: Energy Release and Neutron Interactions

Explores nuclear fission, energy release, fission neutrons, and practical fuels in a nuclear reactor.

Nuclear fission: Energy Release and Fission Fragments

Explores energy release from fission, fuel burnup, and fission fragments yields and decay in a nuclear reactor.

Fundamentals of Nuclear Reactors

Explores the significance of delay neutrons in nuclear reactor operation and the core concepts of fission products and isotopes.

Light Water Reactors: Operation and Design

Explores light water reactors, reactor components, safety features, coolant systems, and reactor efficiency.

Neutron Transport: Flux and Current

Explores neutron behavior in reactors, emphasizing flux, current, and reactor dynamics.

Exercise Sessions: Important Concepts and Nuclear Reactor Activity

Focuses on exercise sessions and solving exercises related to nuclear reactor activity.

Neutron chain-reacting systems

Explores practical fission fuels, chain reactions, and multiplication factors in nuclear reactors.