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NPRE 457

 Safety Analysis of Nuclear Reactor Systems

Dr. Magdi Ragheb

Fall 2022

Professor

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Assignments and Teaching Assistants

        Assignments will account for 40 percent of the final grade.

Tests

Two midterm tests and one final test are scheduled.

Each will account for 20 percent of the final grade for a total of 60 percent of the final grade.

 Assignments, quizzes (unannounced), final project, 40 percent.

Credit

Undergraduates: 3 hours of credit.

Graduates: 3 hours, 1 hour for advanced term paper or project, for a total of 4 hours of credit.

 

Calendar for Fall Semester 2022

4039 Campus Instructional Facility, CIF

Class meeting: 3:00-3:50 pm, MWF
 

Instruction Begins Monday, August 22
Labor Day Monday, September 5 (no classes)
General Election day Tuesday November 8 (no classes)
Thanksgiving Vacation  Begins Saturday, November 19
Instruction Resumes Monday, November 28
Instruction Ends Wednesday, December 7
Reading Day Thursday, December 8
Final Examinations Begin Friday, December 9
Final Examinations End Friday, December 16

First Midterm

 Friday, September 30

Second Midterm

 Monday, October 31

Final Exam

 Monday, December 12, 2022, 7-10 pm
 Wednesday, December 7, during class period

 

Textbook Manuscript
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PROBABILISTIC, POSSIBILISTIC AND DETERMINISTIC SAFETY ANALYSIS

Nuclear Applications

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Preface
1. Overview
2. Natural Disasters and Man Made Accidents
3. Safety Definitions and Terminology
4. Accidents Occurrence
5. Risk Quantification
6. Incidence and Likelihood Risk and Safety Indices
 7. The Risk Assessment Methodology
 8. Risk and Safety Ethics
 9. The Source Term
 10. Environmental Remediation of Radioactive Contamination
 11. Decay Heat Generation in Fission Reactors
 12. Cost Effectiveness Analysis
 13. Boolean Algebra
14. Fuzzy de Morgan Algebra
15. Probabilistic and Possibilistic Fault Tree Analysis
16. Event Tree Analysis
17. Random Numbers Generation
18. Direct Simulation or Analog Monte Carlo
19. Sampling Methods
20. Sampling Special Distributions
21. Fluid  Mechanics Equations
22. Safety Computational Fluid Dynamics
23. Loss of Coolant Accident, LOCA
24. Debris Bed Cooling
25. Steam Explosions
26. Clad Ballooning Accident
27. China Syndrome
28. Containment Structures
29. Safety Aspects of Gas Cooled Reactors
30. Heavy Water Reactors Safety
31. Liquid Metal Reactors Postulated Accidents
 32. Autonomous Battery Reactors
 33. Fourth Generation  Reactor Concepts
 34. Inherently Safe Reactor Designs
35. The Three Mile Island Accident
36. Chernobyl Accident
37. Experimental Breeder Reactor Number I, EBR I Criticality Accident
38. Stationary Low Power Plant Number 1, SL-1 Accident
39. Sodium-Graphite Reactor Experiment, SRE incident
40. Windscale Accident
41. Fermi 1 Fuel Meltdown Incident
42. Steam Generator Leakage at the BN-350 Desalination Plant
43. Browns Ferry Fire
44. Earthquake Safety
44. Fukushima Earthquake and Tsunami Station Blackout Accident
45. Global Climatic Variation and Energy Use
46. Solar Storms Effects on Nuclear and Electrical Installations

References

Appendices

I.  Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
II. Procedure to generate a decay curve, decay.f90
III. Procedure to compute decay heat power and energy release, decayheat.f90
IV. Fault tree analysis code, sample14.f90
VI. Input file to sample14 program, insamp14.txt
VI.  The Panic Over Fukushima
 

Related Courses Information

       NPRE402/ME405  Nuclear Power Engineering

       NPRE457/CSE462 Safety Analysis of Nuclear Reactor Systems

       NPRE490MC(NPRE456/CSE416) Monte Carlo Simulations

       NPRE490WP Wind Power Systems

       NPRE590SF Nuclear and Radiological Safety

       NPRE459/CSE417 Fuzzy Logic and its Applications

 

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