Course Details
NUEN 689.
Special Topics in... .
Selected topics in an identified area of nuclear engineering. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.
Current Special Topics Courses
Fall 2009
689-523: Nuclear Materials under Extreme Conditions
Instructor: Lin Shao
This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of materials behaviors under extreme conditions. The extreme conditions include radiation, stress, corrosion, and high temperature environments in reactors. Materials covered include fuel, cladding, moderator, reflector, coolant, control, shielding, piping and safety systems. Materials degradation phenomena include defect clustering, void formation, swelling, fission gas release, radiation hardening, fracture, creep, alloy decay and phase segregation. The course will also equip students with the basic knowledge for modeling and characterization of degraded materials.
689-521: Fast Spectrum Systems and Applications
Instructor: Pavel Tsvetkov
design and analysis of nuclear systems and nuclear fuel cycles; data, methods and tools for advanced nuclear system modeling; systems analysis; sustainable development of nuclear energy and fast spectrum systems; partitioning & transmutation science and engineering in radioactive waste management; hybrid systems; Advanced Fuel Cycle program; design aspects of Advanced Fast Reactors – neutronics and heat removal, safety, materials, and systems.
Prerequisites: Graduate enrollment or approval by instructor
