Nuclear Power Reactors

2 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: None. Enforced Prerequisite: NERS 441; No OP/F; or graduate standing. Minimum grade requirement of “C” for enforced prerequisite. (2 credits) Analysis of nuclear fission power systems including an introduction to nuclear reactor design, reactivity control, steady-state thermal-hydraulics and reactivity feedback, fuel cycle analysis and fuel management, environmental impact and plant siting and transient analysis of nuclear systems.