Engineering of Nuclear Reactors

4-0-8 units · Graduate

Engineering principles of nuclear reactors, emphasizing power reactors. Power plant thermodynamics, reactor heat generation and removal (single-phase as well as two-phase coolant flow and heat transfer), and structural mechanics. Engineering considerations in reactor design.

Fall 2015

Engineering principles of nuclear reactors, emphasizing power reactors. Topics include power plant thermodynamics, reactor heat generation and removal (single-phase as well as two-phase coolant flow and heat transfer), structural mechanics, and engineering considerations in reactor design.

Readings

The required textbook is Todreas, Neil E., and Mujid S. Kazimi. Nuclear Systems Volume 1: Thermal Hydraulic Fundamentals . 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2011. ISBN: 9781439808870. [Preview with Google Books ] (Revised Printing. CRC Press, July 2015.) ↗
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Textbook readings are supplemented by MIT notes on structural mechanics, various handouts, and other references as listed on the readings page. ↗
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Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: ( 2.001 and 2.005 ) or permission of instructor G (Fall) 4-0-8 units

Sources

Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2015
MIT OCW syllabus ↗
Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.