22.251 / 22.351 Systems Analysis of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Fall 2005
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Author(s)
Kazimi, Mujid S.
Alternative Title
Systems Analysis of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Date Issued
December 2005
Abstract
This course provides an in-depth technical and policy analysis of various options for the nuclear fuel cycle. Topics include uranium supply, enrichment fuel fabrication, in-core physics and fuel management of uranium, thorium and other fuel types, reprocessing and waste disposal. Also covered are the principles of fuel cycle economics and the applied reactor physics of both contemporary and proposed thermal and fast reactors. Nonproliferation aspects, disposal of excess weapons plutonium, and transmutation of actinides and selected fission products in spent fuel are examined. Several state-of-the-art computer programs are provided for student use in problem sets and term papers.
Subjects
nuclear fuel
nuclear fuel cycle
thorium fuel
dry recycling
transmutation
radioactive waste disposal
waste storage
nuclear waste
nuclear reactor analysis
fuel cell design
reactor design
fast reactors
breeder reactors
CANDU reactor
light water reactor
LWR
nuclear non-proliferation
plutonium recycling
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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