NUCLEAR REACTOR LABORATORY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: N E 405 and 427 , or graduate/professional standing Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze, through experiment, the time-dependent behavior of reactors in the subcritical state, the critical state and the supercritical state Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze, through experiment, the spatial shape and energy spectrum of neutron fluxes Audience: Undergraduate 3. Measure neutron and reactor parameters Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe the extent to which theory and experiment agree, and what approximations or uncertainty result in deviations between the two Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze, through experiment, the time-dependent behavior of reactors in the subcritical state, the critical state and the supercritical state Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze, through experiment, the spatial shape and energy spectrum of neutron fluxes Audience: Undergraduate 3. Measure neutron and reactor parameters Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe the extent to which theory and experiment agree, and what approximations or uncertainty result in deviations between the two Audience: Undergraduate