Operation and control [ LBNEN2004 ]

PRE-ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE OR PREREQUISITES

•  It is advised that this course is taken after the following ones, because a number of topics in these courses are assumed known to the student:
• Nuclear Energy: introduction (must)
• Introduction to Nuclear Physics (advised)
• Nuclear Reactor Theory (advised)
• Nuclear Thermal-hydraulics (advised)

REFERENCE BOOKS ON PREREQUISITE

• See the recommended reference books for these courses
• See also www.sckcen.be/bnen
• Brochures and Info
• Background books W. D'haeseleer

• Fuel burnup and the basic principles of core reloading
• Variation of reactivity during a normal operating cycle of the reactor (burnup, moderator effect, Doppler effect, poisoning)
• Power distributions, Xe effect, Xe oscillations
• Operating modes, operating limits and protection diagram
• Measurement systems and their specific problems in the nuclear reactor
• Automatic control systems and their performance in transient and steady-state operation
• Safety requirements and advanced safety features of NPP
• An overview of the major Design Base Accidents, consequences and mitigation
• Visit of a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)
• Seminar on reload calculations: tools used and economic considerations

• To learn how to operate a nuclear reactor
• To seek the safe limits of operation of a nuclear reactor
• To study specific problems of measurement and control in nuclear reactors
• To obtain knowledge on nuclear reactor safety under accidental conditions
  emphasis is on PWR technology

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Individual oral exam, closed book, no written preparation

• 1 t.m. / 20 hours of lectures
• Visit of a NPP
• Two 1/2 day seminars on reload calculations

• See the recommended reference books for these courses
• See also www.sckcen.be/bnen / Brochures and Info / Background books W. D'haeseleer

Walter VAN HOVE vanhovewa@ornl.gov
Professor at the Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent)
Principal Engineer at TEE - Tractebel Energy Engineering, Nuclear Engineering Department
Mechanical Engineer (UGent, 1976)
Post Graduate in Fluid Mechanics (VKI, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, 1985)
Doctor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (UGent, 1989)
Major assignment at TEE: Safety analysis of Nuclear Power Plants, thermal hydraulic analysis of fluid systems under normal and accidental conditions
Teaching duties in BNEN: Operation and Control
Other duties: member of the ERBVC - Externe Reactor BedrijfsVeiligheidsCommissie (External Reactor Safety Review Committee) of the Borssele Nuclear Power Plant (Netherlands).

Greet JANSSENS-MAENHOUT greet.maenhout@jrc.it
Professor at the Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent)
Researcher at the Joint Research Centre Ispra (Italy),
Burgerlijk ingenieur natuurkunde (UGent, 1993), Doktors der Ingenieurswissenschaften (Maschinenbau, University Karlsruhe, 1998)
Research field: Nuclear safety and safeguards: (a) numerical modelling and experimental investigation of two-phase flow with heat transfer, (b) description of interfacial effects in micro-fluid dynamics.
Teaching duties in BNEN: Operation and control
Other duties: member in the 'exzellenten Nachwuchsförderprogramm' of the Karlsruhe Research Centre, active member in the European Multiphase Sciences Institute.