EP 704 – Nuclear Fuel Engineering
EP 704 – Nuclear Fuel Engineering
(2011 version)
Announcements
- Offered May 14 – June 26, 2011. Start time: 9:00 am.
- Deadlines:
- Final date to Register – May 27, 2011
- Last day to Drop Course – May 27, 2011.
- Location: Lecture Theatre, Durham College – Whitby Campus, 1610 Champlain Avenue, Whitby. See Campus Maps.
- Current status: This is a new course that has been approved as a one-off by McMaster, Western and Waterloo, so that students registered there can take the course for credit towards their M.Eng. Queen's approval is pending. Presuming the course is successful, a request will be made for approval as part of the permanent UNENE curriculum effective in 2012/13.
- McMaster Students: register for this course as Engineering Physics EP704 (will be assigned a UNENE course code when officially approved)
- Non-McMaster Students: please refer to your home university for the course code and registration details.
Course Description:
This Engineering Physics / non-core UNENE course covers power reactor fuel design, performance, and safety aspects, and complements other Engineering Physics / UNENE courses on reactor core design, thermohydraulics and reactor safety design. It includes fissile and fertile fuels; burnup effects; fuel production (as well as uranium enrichment and reprocessing of spent fuel), quality assurance and CANDU fuel technical specifications; thermal conductivity; fuel chemistry; fuel restructuring and grain growth; fission product behaviour; fuel defect detection and location; fuel performance in operation; and fuel / fuel channel behaviour in design basis and severe accidents. The course is based on an accredited graduate-level course that has been given several times at Royal Military College (a UNENE member).
Prerequisite: Registration in the UNENE Joint M. Eng. Program
Lecturer: Paul Chan, RMC, email: Paul.Chan@rmc.ca
Course Administration
- Course Introduction (ppt 325kb)
- Schedule
- Session 1 – Saturday, May 14 / Sunday, May 15, 2011
- Session 2 – Saturday, May 28 / Sunday, May 29, 2011
- Session 3 – Saturday, June 11 / Sunday, June 12, 2011
- Session 4 – Saturday, June 25 / Sunday, June 26, 2011
- Outline
- Part 1: Introduction: Fissile/Fertile, Nuclear Safety and Fuel Burnup Effects = 4 lectures
- Part 2: Fuel Production, Quality Assurance and Technical Specification = 9 lectures
- Part 3: Fuel Thermal Conductivity = 3 lectures
- Part 4: Fuel Chemistry = 2 lectures
- Mid-term = 1 lecture
- Project Slot#1 = 1 lecture
- Part 5: Fuel Restructuring/Grain Growth = 2 lectures
- Part 6: Fission Product Behaviour and Fuel Defect Detection and Location = 7 lectures
- Part 7: Fuel Performance = 3 lectures
- Part 8: Fuel and Fuel Channel Accident Analysis (MFMI and PT/CT) = 3 lectures
- Part 9: Severe Core Damage = 2 lectures
- Final Exam = 2 lecture
- Project Slot #2 = 1 lecture
Course Notes
- Introduction (pdf 2.2Mb)
- Fuel Production (pdf 4.5Mb)
- Fuel Thermal Performance (pdf 632kb)
- Fuel Chemistry (pdf 750kb)
- Fuel Restructuring (pdf 520kb)
- Fission Product Behaviour (pdf 1.0Mb)
- Fuel performane (pdf 1.0Mb)
- FFC Accidents (pdf 75kb)
- Severe Accident (pdf 2.3Mb)