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Dec 22, 2024
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MCCC College Catalog 2024-2025
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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.
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