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2024/2025
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SAFETY ANALYSES NUCLEAR REACTORS

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Code Completion Credits Range
W15OZ001 ZK 65P+13C
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:
Time-table is not available yet
Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:
Time-table is not available yet
The course is a part of the following study plans:
Data valid to 2025-04-01
For updated information see http://bilakniha.cvut.cz/en/predmet6656206.html