3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 6009278FER for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (F) Master - specialised level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Possible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Partnership Agreement
- Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- Department
- Faculty of Engineering
- External partners
- Université de Liège
- Educational team
- Decaan IR
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
-
26.5 contact hours Lecture
7 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
- upstream: fuel conversion; enrichment; fuel elements
downstream: reprocessing; MOX
downstream: waste management; waste disposal
thermo-mechanical properties of the fuel
nuclear chemistry of the primary and secondary circuits.
- Course material
- Handbook (Required) : Fundamental Aspects of Nuclear Reactor Fuel Elements, Olander, D., Techn. Inf. Cent. Erda, 9780870790317, 1976
Handbook (Required) : Nuclear Chemical Engineering, Benedict, M., Pigford, Th., & Levi, H.W., 2nd Ed,, McGraw-Hill, New York, 9780070045316, 1981
- Additional info
Olander, D., Fundamental Aspects of Nuclear Reactor Fuel Elements, Techn. Inf. Cent. Erda, 1976.
Benedict, M., Pigford, Th., & Levi, H.W., Nuclear Chemical Engineering,, 2nd Ed, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1981,ISBN 0-07-004531-3
Instructors: Pierre Van Iseghem (main instructor) and Hubert Druenne.
- Learning Outcomes
-
Algemene competenties
To familiarise students with the basic aspects of materials science as they apply to design of nuclear fuel elements.
To provide students with overall view of the radioactive waste management, ranging from waste characteristics, waste treatment technologies, disposal technologies, to safety assessment of geologic disposal.
To be familiarised with the nuclear chemistry of the plant circuits.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
under construction
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Nuclear Engineering: Standaard traject