3 ECTS credits
85 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 6009285FNR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (F) Master - specialised level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- 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
- Universiteit Gent
- Educational team
- Klaus BACHER
Hubert THIERENS
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
-
24 contact hours Lecture
3 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
- radiation sources (origin, energetic spectra, directional characteristics)
interaction of radiation with matter
computational methods for transport calculations and energy deposition
dosimetry
biological effects of radiation
engineering aspects of radiation shielding
regulations and legislation
detectors (principles, types, spectroscopy, efficiency, resolution,...)
gas detectors (ionisation chambers, proportional counters, Geiger-Muller counters)
scintillation detectors (organic, inorganic, photomultiplyers, resolution, gamma-ray spectroscopy)
solid-state detectors (silicon diode detectors, Germanium detectors)
nuclear electronics (counting chain components; types of measurements: amplitudes, times, coincidences; noise: origin, characteristics, filtering)
- Course material
- Handbook (Required) : Radiation detection and measurement, G.F. Knoll, 4de, J. Wiley, 9780470131480, 2010
Handbook (Required) : Reactor Shielding for Nuclear Engineering, N.M. Schaeffer, Atomic Energy Commission, USA, 9780870790041, 1973
Handbook (Required) : Radiation Shielding and Dosimetry, A.E. Profio, Wiley, NY, 9780471043294, 1979
Handbook (Required) : Computational Methods in Reactor Shielding, J. Wood, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 9780080286860, 1982
- Additional info
Information on the study material is available at BNEN-website: http://bnen.sckcen.be/en/Programme.
G.F. Knoll "Radiation detection and measurement", J. Wiley, 1989.
N.M. Schaeffer, "Reactor Shielding for Nuclear Engineering", Atomic Energy Commission, USA, 1973
A.E. Profio, "Radiation Shielding and Dosimetry", Wiley, NY, 1979.
J. Wood, "Computational Methods in Reactor Shielding", Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1982
- Learning Outcomes
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Algemene competenties
Information available at the BNEN-website: http://bnen.sckcen.be/en/Programme.
Under this subject, three major subjects are treated: biological effects of radiation, radiation shielding and radiation detection and measurement (also called "nuclear metrology"). (Fundamental physical aspects, like the nature of the radioactive decay modes are treated in the prerequisite course "introduction to nuclear physics")
In the part on nuclear metrology: to provide general review of radiation measurement techniques relevant to nuclear engineering
- 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
Information is available at the BNEN-website: http://bnen.sckcen.be/en/Programme.
- 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