Credit Hours: | 3-0-3 | |
Prerequisites: | NRE 6201 or equivalent, or with the consent of the instructor | |
Catalog Description: | Fission fuel cycle, uranium mining and milling, enrichment. Fuel fabrication. In-core fuel management. Reprocessing and fuel cycle economics. Spent-fuel waste management. | |
Textbooks: | Robert G. Cochran and Nicholas Tsoulfanidis, The Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Analysis and Management, Second Edition, American Nuclear Society, 1999. | |
Instructors: | Bojan Petrovic | |
References: | Nuclear Chemical Engineering, M. Benedict, T. H. Pigford and H. W. Levi, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, NY, 1981. Nuclear Fuel Management, H. W. Graves, John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY, 1979. | |
Goals: | Provide an integrated survey of the nuclear fuel cycle, an understanding of the technologies employed and the related aspects of safety, economics, environmental effects and institutional safeguards. | |
Prerequisite by Topic: | Reactor Physics | |
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Computer Usage: | Code assignments which model enrichment process and isotope buildup/depletion. | |
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