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Prof. Andrew Kadak

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Nuclear Science and Engineering

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Spring 2008

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Lecture Notes

Boiling Water Reactors

Chernobyl: What Happened and Why?

Current Regulatory Safety Issues

Design Issues: Power Cycles for Nuclear Plants

Fuel Depletion & Related Effects

Integration of Safety Analysis into Operational Requirements

Overview

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Background Information

Power Cycles for Nuclear Plants: Rankine and Brayton

Probabilistic Safety Analysis

Reactor Energy Removal

Reactor Kinetics and Control

Reactor Physics Review

Safety Analysis Report and LOCA

Safety Culture

Safety Goals: Risk Informed Decision Making

Safety Systems and Functions

Seabrook Station General Description

Simulation Exercises of Accidents and Transients

Three Mile Island Accident

Lecture: 1 – Introduction and Overview

Lecture 2 3: Current Regulatory Issues

Lecture: 2 – Reactor Physics Review

Lecture: 3 – Reactor Kinetics and Control

Lecture: 4 – Fuel Depletion and Related Effects

Lecture: 5 – MIT Reactor Physics Exercise - Power Change

Lecture: 5 – MIT Reactor Physics Exercise - Power Change

Lecture: 6 – Reactor Energy Removal

Lecture: 7 – Design Issues and Power Cycles for Nuclear Plants - Rankine Cycle

Lecture: 8 – Power Cycles for Nuclear Plants - Rankine and Brayton Cycles

Lecture: 9 – Safety Systems and Functions

Lecture: 10 – Safety Analysis Report and LOCA

Lecture: 11 – Probabilistic Safety Analysis

Lecture: 12 – Safety Goals and Risk Informed Decision Making

Lecture: 13 – Integration of Safety Analysis into Operational Requirements

Lecture: 14 – Simulation Exercises of Accidents and Transients

Lecture: 15 – Boiling Water Reactors

Lecture: 16 – Seabrook Station Background Information

Lecture: 17 – Seabrook Station Simulator Exercises

Lecture: 17 – Seabrook Station Simulator Exercises

Lecture: 18 – Pilgrim Station Background Information

Lecture: 19 – Three Mile Island Accident

Lecture: 20 – Chernobyl

Lecture: 21 – Davis Besse - Near Miss 2002

Lecture: 22 – Safety Culture

Lecture: 23 – Current Regulatory Issues

Lecture: 23 – Current Regulatory Issues

ecture: 24 – Advanced Reactors

Lecture: 24 – Current Regulatory Safety Issues

Davis Besse - Near Miss 2002

Course Info

Instructor

Prof. Andrew Kadak

Departments

Nuclear Science and Engineering

As Taught In

Spring 2008

Level

Undergraduate
Graduate

Topics

Learning Resource Types

Lecture Notes

Exams

Lecture Videos

Problem Sets

Programming Assignments

Written Assignments

Download Course

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