COURSE CONTENT

INTRODUCTION: Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Fuels. Energy sources, Energy reserves.

REVIEW OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS: Nuclear reactions. Cross sections. Reaction rates.

NUCLEAR FISSION: Excess mass and binding energies. Radioactive decay. Fission chain reaction.

NUCLEAR REACTOR TECHNOLOGY: Thermal neutron reactors. Fast neutron breeder reactors. Nuclear fuel cycle. Heat transfer and fluid flow in nuclear reactors. Radiation. Safety and Environmental problems.

NUCLEAR FUSION: Isotopes involved in fusion reactions and reserves. Requirements for a thermonuclear fusion reaction. Elements of plasma physics. Magnetically confined plasma fusion devices. Laser induced fusion. Fusion reactor technology.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Knowledge:

• Basic concepts of nuclear physics
• Fundamentals of energy production from fission and core fusion.
• Technology of fission reactors and technological problems to be solved for the operation of fusion reactors.

Skills-Abilities:

• Calculation of physical and technological parameters of nuclear technology
• Solving related exercises.