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    May 05, 2024  
MCCC College Catalog 2022-23 
    
MCCC College Catalog 2022-23 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

NUET 240 - Reactor Theory, Safety and Design


Credit Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 4
Prerequisites: NUET 100  and MATL 121  and PHY 151  and CHEM 151 
Session Cycle: WI

This course presents the fundamental concepts of nuclear reactor theory with a primary focus on light water cooled boiling water reactors. Concepts presented will include neutron interactions, nuclear fission, and chain reactions in thermal light water cooled reactors; thermal diffusion and neutron thermalization; criticality and reactivity calculations; reactivity kinetics and feedback mechanisms; fission product daughter production and radionuclide transmutation; reactor safety principles including emergency core cooling and engineered safety features; design basis accident and core damage mitigation; case studies.