409 (METAL 409) NUCLEAR MATERIALS (3:3:0) Nuclear reactor materials: relationship between changes in material properties and microstructural evolution of nuclear cladding and fuel under irradiation. Prerequisite: PHYS 203 or 204

420 RADIOLOGICAL SAFETY (3:3:0) Ionizing radiation, biological effects, radiation measurement, dose computational techniques, local and federal regulations, exposure control. Prerequisites: MATH 251, PHYS 237 or 265, or NUC E 301.

428 RADIOACTIVE WASTE CONTROL (3:3:0) Nature, sources, and control of radioactive wastes; theory and practice of disposal processes. Prerequisites: NUC E 301 or instructor permission.

430 DESIGN PRINCIPLES OF REACTOR SYSTEMS (3:3:0) Nuclear power cycles; heat removal problems; kinetic behavior of nuclear systems; material and structural design problems. Prerequisites: M E 412; NUC E 301 or 401.

431W NUCLEAR REACTOR CORE DESIGN SYNTHESIS (4:4:0) Technical and economic optimization of nuclear systems. Prerequisites: ENGL 202C; NUC E 403 and 430.

442 NUCLEAR REACTOR CONTROL (2:2:0) Nuclear reactor dynamics and stability analysis using classical Bode, Nyquist and root locus techniques. Feedback control design. Prerequisite NUC E 451 or instructor permission.

443 NUCLEAR DIGITAL DATA ACQUISITION, PROCESSING AND CONTROL (1:1:1) Acquisition of nuclear data using ADC/DAC hardware, the C computer language for acquisition, real-time processing, graphics, and control. Prerequisite: Concurrent with Nuc E 442 or instructor permission.

444 NUCLEAR REACTOR OPERATIONS LABORATORY (1:0:3) Correlation of reactor Prerequisite: NUC E 302.

445 NUCLEAR DIGITAL INSTRUMENTATION (3:1:4) Interfacing nuclear instruments to microprocessors and computers. Prerequisite: E E 305.

450 RADIATION DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT (3:2:3) Theory and laboratory applications of radiation detectors, including proton, neutron, charged particle detectors. NIM devices, and pulse-height analysis. Prerequisite: NUC E 301 or NUC E 405.

451 EXPERIMENTS IN REACTOR PHYSICS (3:1:4) Acquisition and processing nuclear and atomic data; application to nucleonic phenomena of importance in nuclear engineering. Prerequisites: NUC E 450, E E 305.

460 NUCLEAR SYSTEMS RISK ASSESSMENT (3:3:0) Probability concepts and distributions, failure data, reliability and availability of simple systems, fault and event tree analysis, risk concepts, nuclear power risks, WASH-1400. Prerequisite: NUC E 309 or STAT 401.

470 POWER PLANT SIMULATION (3:2:2) Basic knowledge necessary for intelligent simulation and interpretation of simulations of transients in nuclear power plants. Prerequisite(s): ME 33, MATH 251, NUC E 302

490 (AERSP 490, E E 490) INTRODUCTION TO PLASMAS (3:3:0) Plasma oscillations; collisional phenomena; transport properties; orbit theory; typical electric discharge phenomena. Prerequisite: E E 361 or PHYS 467.

501 REACTOR ENGINEERING (3) Thermal hydraulic fundamentals including thermal hydraulic characteristics of power reactors, thermal design principles, reactor heat generators, thermal analysis of fuel elements and size and two-phase heat transfer in heated channels. Prerequisites: NUC E 302; NUC E 430

505 REACTOR INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL (3) Reactor control principles; classical control methods; operational control problems; control simulation using modern mainframe and microcomputer software packages; reactor instrumentation. Prerequisite: NUC E 302 or NUC E 401

512 NUCLEAR FUEL MANAGEMENT (3) Develop advanced techniques for reloading nuclear reactors using sophisticated neutronic codes. Emphasis on calculational techniques in reactor optimization and design, and economic value through the fuel cycle. Prerequisite: NUC E 302.

521 NEUTRON TRANSPORT THEORY (3) Derivation of Boltzmann equation for neutron transport; techniques of approximate and exact solution for the monoenergetic and spectrum regenerating cases. Prerequisite: NUC E 403 or PHYS 406

523 ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION OF MATERIALS IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS (3) covers the electrochemistry and materials aspect of the in-reactor degradation processes that affect materials performance. Uniform and localized cladding corrosion, stresscorrosion cracking irradiation creep and growth.

525 MONTE CARLO METHODS (3) Fundamentals of the probability theory and statistics, analog and non-analog Monte Carlo methods and their applications, random processes, and numbers. Prerequisite: CMPSC 201, MATH 141, NUC E 309 or STAT 401.

530 PARALLEL/VECTOR ALGORITHMS FOR SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS (3) Development/analysis of parallel/vector algorithms (finite-differencing of PDEs and Monte Carlo methods) for engineering/scientific applications for shared and distributed memory architectures. Prerequisites: AERSP 424 or CSE 457.

597B ADVANCED THERMAL HYDRAULIC ANALYSIS OF LWRs (3) In-depth analysis of the thermal hydraulic design in LWRs. Topics include: LWR design criteria, fuel rod design, subchannel analysis, uncertainties analysis, and system design. Prerequisite: NUC E 501

597C PROFESSIONAL TOPICS IN NUCLEAR ENGINEERING (3) This is a special topics course where the student picks an advisor from the faculty and an advisor from work and writes a professional paper on a topic chosen by the student.

597D NUCLEAR REACTOR SAFETY (3) Covers the licensing process and analysis used for nuclear reactor safety. Topics include: federal regulations, accident classification and analysis, review of historical accidents, risk assessment, and advanced reactor design. Prerequisite: NUC E 501.

597E POWER PLANT DYNAMICS AND CONTROL (3) Mathematical foundation for modeling and analysis of dynamic behavior for electrical generating power plant components and systems; includes steam generation, feedwater, and turbine generator systems. Automatic control with single loop PID feedback and some conditioned feedforward signals.

597K NUCLEAR REACTOR KINETICS AND DYNAMICS (3) Analytical kinetics and dynamics modeling for reactivity-induced transients, applications including reactor accident kinetics methods for simple and complex geometries, experimental methods.