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LEC # TOPICS LECTURERS
1 Noteworthy Aspects and Issues Related to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Kazimi
2 The Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Kazimi
3 Thermal Considerations in Fuel Cycle Management Kazimi
4 Design Criteria Physics (PDF) (Courtesy of Dr. Edward Pilat. Used with permission.) Pilat
5 Objectives (Output) of Reactor Analysis CALCS (PDF) (Courtesy of Dr. Edward Pilat. Used with permission.) Pilat
6 Reactivity and Burnable Poison Pilat
7

Fuel Cost Calculations (PDF) (Courtesy of Dr. Edward Pilat. Used with permission.)

How Fuel Cost Raises

Pilat
8 Fuel Cycle and Operations Economics Pilat
9 An Overview of the ACR Design (PDF) Pilat
10 Fast Reactor Physics and Fuel Management M. J. Driscoll
11 HTGR Pilat
12 High Level Wastes of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Kazimi
13 High Level Waste 2 Kazimi
14 Early Graphite Reactors and the Windscale and Chernobyl Accident
Article: Chernobyl Accident
Pilat
15 Modeling Fuel Behavior AR
16 Nuclear Non-proliferation Kazimi
17 Nonproliferation, Safeguards, and Export Controls (PDF - 1.6 MB) (Courtesy of Matthew Bunn. Used with permission.) M. Bunn
18 Thorium as a Nuclear Fuel (PDF - 1.0 MB) Pilat
19 Pu Recycle In LWRs Kazimi
20 Proliferation-Resistance (and Terror- resistance) of Nuclear Energy Systems (PDF) (Courtesy of Matthew Bunn. Used with permission.) M. Bunn
21 Nuclear Fuel Design and Manufacturing G. Dooley
22 Transmutation of Spent Nuclear Fuel Kazimi