| LEC # | READINGS |
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| 1 | |
| 3 | Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations. "Fuel Safety Criteria Technical Review: Results of OECD/CSNI/PWG2 Task Force on Fuel Safety Criteria." July 21, 2000. NEA/CSNI/R(99)25. |
| 4 | Physics Design Criteria (PDF) NRC General Design Criteria Relating to Reactor Physics (PDF) (Courtesy of Nuclear Regulatory Commission.) Relationship of Safety Analyses to Licensing and Tech Specs (PDF) NRC Standard Review Plan for Nuclear Design of LWRs (PDF) (Courtesy of Nuclear Regulatory Commission.) |
| 7 | Nuclear Power Economics |
| 8 | Fuel Cycle Economics (PDF) (Courtesy of Professor Michael J. Driscoll. Used with permission.) |
| 11 | Pilat, Edward. "Modern Graphite Reactors." Lecture notes. Gas Turbine Modular Helium Reactor Summary (PDF) (Courtesy of General Atomics. Used with permission) Impact of High Burnup on PWR Spent Fuel Characteristics (PDF - 1.2 MB) (Courtesy of the American Nuclear Society. Used with permission. Source: Zhiwen Xu, Mujid S. Kazimi, and Michael J. Driscoll. Nuc Sci and Eng 151 (2005): 261-273. Copyright 2005 by the American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, Illinois.) |
| 16 | Shea, Thomas E. "Proliferation-Resistant Technologies and IAEA Safeguards." Prepared for the Technical Opportunities for Increasing the Proliferation Resistance of Global Civilian Nuclear Power Systems Workshop. Washington D.C., March 29-30, 2000. Goldschmidt, Pierre. "The IAEA Safeguards System Moves Into the 21st Century." Supplement to the IAEA Bulletin 24, no. 4 (December 1999). Evaluation of the Proliferation Resistant Characteristics of LWR Fuel (PDF) (Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.) Uranium Enrichment (PDF)# |
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This section includes the readings by session below.
The required course textbook is:
Cochran, R. G., and N. Tsoulfanidis. The Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Analysis and Management. 2nd ed. La Grange Park, IL: American Nuclear Society, 1993. ISBN: 9780894484513.
The following assignments are from the textbook:
Driscoll, M. J., T. J. Downar, and E. E. Pilat. The Linear Reactivity Model for Nuclear Fuel Management. La Grange Park, IL: American Nuclear Society, 1991. ISBN: 9780894480355.
Read the preface, and note errata.
Chapter One - Entire chapter, and especially:
- Section 1.3.1 and equation 1.7.
- Table 1.2 summarizes key analytic results.
- Section 2.5 on the effect of leakage.
Chapter Two - Skim through this:
- Except to note the discussion on coast down, p. 53-59.
Chapter Three
- Sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 leading up to equation 3.21 and figure 3.1.
- Section 3.9 on Burnable Poison.
Chapter Four - Skim sections 4.1 through 4.3 and; Read section 4.8 on BWR.
Chapter Five - Skim except for:
- Table 5.1.
- Skip 5.3 onward, except for table 5.6.
Chapter Six - Only read:
- Section 6.3 on CANDU.
- Section 6.6 on spectral shift and tandem fuel cycle.
Cochran, R. G., and N. Tsoulfanidis. "The Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Analysis and Management." American Nuclear Society. 2nd ed. 1999.
Wilson, P. D., ed. "The Nuclear Fuel Cycle: from Ore to Wastes." New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Driscoll, M. J., T. J. Downar, and E. E. Pilat. "The Linear Reactivity Model for Nuclear Fuel Management." American Nuclear Society. 1990.
Graves, H. W., Jr. "Nuclear Fuel Management." New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1979.
Levine, S. H. "Fuel Management." CRC Handbook of Nuclear Reactor Calculations. Edited by Y. Ronan. Vol. 2. 1986.
Benedict, M., T. H. Pigford, and H. W. Levi. Nuclear Chemical Engineering. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 1981.
Rasmussen, N. C., et al. "Nuclear Waste: Technologies for Separations and Transmutation." National Research Council, 1996.
"Complex Cleanup: The Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Production." Office of Technology Assessment, US Congress, 1991.
IAEA. "Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Reactor Strategies: Adjusting to New Realities." 1995.
Knief, R. A. "Nuclear Energy Technology." Hemisphere. 2nd ed. 1992.
Marshall, W., ed. "Nuclear Power Technology, Vol. 2 Fuel Cycle." Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1983.
"The Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle." NEA/OECD, 1994.
"Water Reactor Extended Burn-Up Study (WREBUS)." IAEA Technical Report, no. 343, 1992.
Gavrilas, M., P. Hejzlar, N. E. Todreas, and Y. Shatilla. "Safety Features of Operating Light Water Reactors of Western Design." 2nd ed. Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES), 2000.
Deutch, J., E. Moniz, S. Ansolabhere, M. Driscoll, R. Lester, N. Todreas, P. Gray, P. Jaskow, and J. Holden. "The Future of Nuclear Power." MIT 2003.