• The 2005 offering was given 2005.11.12 - 2005.12.17. Details are given below.
• The 2004 version of this course is maintained for archival and reference purposes.

Course description:

An introduction to nuclear energy and fission energy systems is presented. The energetics of nuclear reactions, interactions of radiation with matter, radioactivity, design and operating principles of fission are presented. Nuclear reactor physics including chain reactions, reactor statics and kinetics, multigroup analysis, core thermalhydraulics and the impact of these topics on reactor design are covered. Special topics such as xenon dynamics, burnup and reactor flux effects on safety are included.

Course Administration:

• Course Outline

Course Notes (Ben Rouben):

• Basic CANDU Design, paper (pdf 375kb), presentation (pdf 2.2Mb)
• Infinite lattice multiplication (pdf 218 kb)
• Isotopes vs irradiation (pdf 57kb)
• CANDU void reactivity (pdf 677kb)
• ACR reduced void reactivity (pdf 50kb)
• Large LOCA (pdf 529kb)
• Reactor Physics is fun (pdf 114kb)
• Physics for NOP (pdf kb)
• Xenon effects (pdf 291kb)
• POWDERPUFS V
  • Computational scheme (pdf 309kb)
  • Notes on procedures for Powderpufs-V runs (pdf 10kb)
  • PPV file tips (pdf 8kb)
  • PPV input description (pdf 50kb)

Course Notes (Dorin Nichita):

• Reactor Physics (pdf 10.0Mb) - presentation slides (469 in all)

Course Recordings (you will need to download the WebEx Player (wrf) to view these recordings):

• Rouben 2005.11.04 (wrf 13.8Mb)
• Rouben 2005.12.03a (wrf 15.4Mb)
• Rouben 2005.12.03b (wrf 23.2Mb)
• Rouben 2005.12.04 (wrf 24.5Mb)
• Rouben 2005.12.10 (wrf 69.6Mb)
• Rouben 2005.12.11 (wrf 28.1Mb)
• Nichita 01 (wrf 2.2Mb)
• Nichita 02 (wrf 5.7Mb)
• Nichita 03 (wrf 15.0Mb)
• Nichita 04 (wrf 19.6Mb)
• Nichita 05 (wrf 5.2Mb)
• Nichita 06 (wrf 11.8Mb)
• Nichita 07 (wrf 5.2Mb)
• Nichita 08 (wrf 23.2Mb)
• Nichita 09 (wrf 45.2Mb)
• Nichita 10 (wrf 17.3Mb)

Interesting and Informative Links and Reference Information

• Computing tools - some suggestions.
• Reactor physics code downloads.
• See the Downloads page for engineering software and compilers, etc.
• Suggestions welcome.