NRE 6401 - Advanced Nuclear Engineering Design
Offered as Required

Credit Hours: 1-6-3
Prerequisites: NRE 6201 and 6102 and 6301.
Course Description: Synthesis of principles of nuclear engineering in the design of nuclear reactors and other facilities.
Textbook: None
Instructor: W. M. Stacey (Spring 2004)

Goals:
 
To apply the theoretical knowledge obtained during undergraduate and graduate engineering studies to a practical design project.
Typical Design
Problems:

 
 
 
 
Facilities for the storage and transportation of spent fuel.
Irradiation facilities

Nuclear power reactor reload fuel

Fuel fabrication facilities

Hybrid fusion-fission reactors

Tritium facilities for fusion reactors

 

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Revised January 2004