Nuclear Fuel Engineering

Topics

• Course covers power reactor fuel design
• Performance
• Safety aspects
• Complements existing courses on reactor core design
• Thermohydraulics and reactor safety design
• It includes fissile and fertile fuels
• Burn-up effects
• Fuel production
• Uranium enrichment
• Spent fuel
• Quality assurance and CANDU fuel technical specifications
• Thermal conductivity
• Fuel chemistry
• Fuel restructuring and grain growth