22.39 Integration of Reactor Design, Operations, and Safety, Fall 2005
The "GEN IV" (Generation IV) design is a next generation nuclear power plant that produces electricity and hydrogen without any GHG emissions. (Image courtesy of U.S. DOE.)
课程重点
课程描述
This course integrates studies of engineering sciences, reactor physics and safety assessment into nuclear power plant design. Topics include materials issues in plant design and operations, aspects of thermal design, fuel depletion and fission-product poisoning, and temperature effects on reactivity, safety considerations in regulations and operations, such as the evolution of the regulatory process, the concept of defense in depth, General Design Criteria, accident analysis, probabilistic risk assessment, and risk-informed regulations.
技术需求
Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .exe and .zip. The .in files are input data files.
