Nuclear Safeguards

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: None. Enforced Prerequisite: NERS 315 ; No OP/F; or graduate standing. Minimum grade requirement of “C” for enforced prerequisite. (3 credits) Students will be introduced to the history of nuclear-material safeguards, nuclear-safeguard techniques, international safeguards policy, and currently used neutron and gamma-ray measurement systems and techniques. Students will attend weekly lectures to prepare for a week-long training offered at the Safeguards Laboratory (SL) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).