SAFETY ANALYSES NUCLEAR REACTORS

Course guarantor:

Tomáš Jirout

Lecturer:

Tomáš Dlouhý, Václav Dostál, Slavomír Entler, František Hrdlička, Jan Hrdlička, Michal Kolovratník, Pavel Zácha

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Energy Engineering

Synopsis:

•Master basic principles of nuclear safety.

•Understand the basics and application of all the necessary disciplines.

•Basic principles of nuclear safety.

•In-depth protection for existing and perspective reactors and its individual levels.

•Inherent, passive and active safety systems.

•Reactivity transients (reactivity insertion mechanism, normal and prompt performance excursion, Chernobyl).

•Cooling failure.

•Loss of Cooling Accident - LOCA.

•Fuel behavior in accidents, mechanism of damage after melting.

•Processes in the containment including relevant physical and technical processes, source term.

•Propagation of radioactivity inside the reactor and in the environment.

•Radiological consequences.

•Application of current computing tools for security analysis.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Study materials:

•Nureg 0800

•Todreas, Kazimi, Nuclear Systems I, Taylor and Francis, 1993

•Todreas, Kazimi, Nuclear Systems II, Taylor and Francis, 1993

•Lewis,Nuclear Power Reactor Safety, John Wiley and Sons, 1977

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

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Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: