637-3006/01 – Materials for Nuclear Engineering (MJT)
| Gurantor department | Department of Non-ferrous Metals, Refining and Recycling | Credits | 5 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Ivo Szurman, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Miroslav Kursa, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2014/2015 | Year of cancellation | 2019/2020 |
| Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Student will be after completion of the course able to:
- Explain the principles of nuclear reactions leading to processes of fission of atoms.
- Evaluate possibilities of generation of power from individual sources, including their assessment and comparison.
- Assess or predict physical, mechanical and nuclear properties of materials for individual components of nuclear reactor.
- Propose and optimise processes for production of individual groups of materials for nuclear reactor.
- Assess material requirements to concrete applications and make their modifications by alloying, or by thermal-mechanical treatment.
- Assess and evaluate influence of nuclear irradiation on properties of material for nuclear reactors.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Project work
Summary
- Students will learn the basic requirements for materials applied in nuclear technology. It concerns in particular individual materials applied at building of nuclear reactors.
- Importance of nuclear purity will be discussed, as well as methods of its securing for each type of material, especially for coating and fissile materials.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Preparation of semestral project on the given topic from the following areas: nuclear reactors of the 4th generation; comparison of safety of nuclear reactors of different generations; nuclear fuels; production of special materials for coatings, structures, etc.
- The lecturer will inspect the project within 14 days after its presentation and results will be communicated to students by e mail or via IS.
Passing of the credit test – results will be communicated to students after its completion.
E-learning
not available
Other requirements
Making of seminar project on a given topic and credit test.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Physical principles of operation of nuclear reactor.
2. Nuclear reactions, fission reaction, nuclear fusion, mechanisms, products of fission reaction.
3. Nuclear reactor and its components.
4. Classification of nuclear reactors (PWE, BWR, PHWR, LGWR, GCR, AGR, HTGR, FBR), principles.
5. Fuels, coolants, moderators, reflectors.
6. Absorption and shielding materials, materials for pressure vessels of nuclear reactors.
7. Uranium, alloys, compounds, metallurgical bases for production of chemically clean uranium compounds.
8. Production of metallic uranium and UO2, enrichment of uranium.
9. Properties and metallurgical bases for production of Th and Pu.
10. Re-processing of spent fuel.
11. Coating materials (Al, Mg, Zr, Be), general requirements and characteristic properties of individual types of materials.
12. Moderators, reflectors, absorption materials – material solutions, characteristic properties. Influence of irradiation on properties of materials for nuclear reactors.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction