Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
6 credits
Q2
Language
English
Prerequisites
The following BNEN courses are a prerequisite
· Nuclear Energy: Introduction
· Introduction to Nuclear Physics and Measurements
Mathematics (differential equations, taylor expansions, fourier expansions, bessel functions)
· Nuclear Energy: Introduction
· Introduction to Nuclear Physics and Measurements
Mathematics (differential equations, taylor expansions, fourier expansions, bessel functions)
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
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- steady state or transient; - number of groups; - delayed neutron precursors; - space dependent properties.
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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”.
Content
- Physics of nuclear reactors
- Transport and diffusion
- Spatial dependence
- Slowing down theory
- Resonance integrals
- Cell calculations
- Neutron thermalisation
- Multigroup equations
- Criticality dependence on geometry and composition
- Reactivity and control
- Reactor dynamics
- Reactor codes
- Neutron sources and detectors
- Basic measurements: source strength, neutron flux (activation analysis, neutron counting), neutron spectrum reaction rates
- Activity, dose and cross-section measurement
- Measurement of neutron transport parameters: stationary methods, pulsed neutron experiments
- Measurement of reactivity (and reactivity coefficients): survey, static methods, dynamic measurements, inverse kinetics, neutron noise fluctuation methods
Evaluation methods
Written examination, open book.
Other information
This course is part of the Advanced Master programme in nuclear engineering organized by the Belgian Nuclear Higher Education Network (BNEN). BNEN is organised through a consortium of six Belgian universities and the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, SCK-CEN and takes place at the SCK-CEN in Mol.
Information : https://www.sckcen.be/fbnen
Information : https://www.sckcen.be/fbnen
Faculty or entity
EPL
Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)
Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Advanced Master in Nuclear Engineering
