361-0330/01 – Nuclear Energy Basics (JE)
| Gurantor department | Department of Power Engineering | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Pavel Kolat, DrSc. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Pavel Kolat, DrSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2017/2018 | Year of cancellation | 2022/2023 |
| Intended for the faculties | FS | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The course introduces basic laws of conversion of energy from nuclear fission in the thermal, mechanical and electrical energies and fundamental and detailed design of reactors and nuclear power plant equipments where mentioned conversions of energies take place. Furthermore radioactive waste in connection with the Atomic Act. Safety issues of nuclear power plants, the technical means to achieve it and the protection of nearby nuclear power plant. They discussed ways of nuclear power plant using the passive safety systems in generation III and IV.
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Summary
Students will learn the basics of nuclear power and heat generation in nuclear power reactors. Furthermore, they dealt with the concept of nuclear power plants, primary and secondary circuits. The aim is to acquire basic knowledge in the field of nuclear energy facilities and to obtain graduate comprehensive picture of the energy industry.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
http://fs1.vsb.cz/361/vyuka/JE - neveřejný přístup
http://fs1.vsb.cz/361//erasmus/power_centrals/ - neveřejný přístup
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Nuclear Energy
Published June 1999, ISBN 0 85403 526 5,1999 The Royal Society,1999 The Royal Academy of Engineering,Printed by Holbrooks Printers Ltd, Norway Road Hilsea Portsmouth Hants PO3
Raymond Murray:Nuclear Energy, Fifth Edition: An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes. Amazon.com.
Eugene Paul Wigner,: Nuclear Energy
Alvin M. Weinberg (Editor) . Amazon.com
Ian Hore-Lacy: Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century: World Nuclear University Press .
Alan M. Herbst, George W. Hopley: Nuclear Energy Now: Amazon.com.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Physical principles of nuclear energy, radioactive decay, neutron nuclear reactions, the balance of neutrons in a nuclear reactor reaktoru.Physical calculation, neutron diffusion, the critical equation of a nuclear reactor neutron flow.Creation of heat in a nuclear reactor, heat flow distribution, temperature field in the course of the fuel element zone.Regulation of nuclear reactor, reactor poisoning, iodine pit. Types of nuclear energy, light water, heavy water, high-speed and gas cooled.Nuclear cycle , fuels and fuel cells, production, storage and disposal of nuclear waste. Diagrams of nuclear power, thermal efficiency and ways of increasing.Technological loops, cleaning and coolant restraint systems compensate coolant, emergency reactor cooling, kontejments.Steam generators in nuclear power plants, construction of vertical and horizontal ones PG calculate the main dimensions, dynamic features.Primary circulation and feed pumps, valves, drip systems, air conditioning, .Turbine of nuclear power plants in deep steam condensation and cooling cycles, regenerative feedwater heater, heat control .Nuclear energy and the environment, economy of operation.
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