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Materials for Nuclear Engineering

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 632-3306/01
Abbreviation MJT
Course title Materials for Nuclear Engineering
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Materials and Technologies for Vehicles
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ivo Szurman, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

- Physical principles of operation of nuclear reactor.
- Nuclear reactions, fission reaction, nuclear fusion, mechanisms, products of fission reaction.
- Nuclear reactor and its components.
- Classification of nuclear reactors (PWE, BWR, PHWR, LGWR, GCR, AGR, HTGR, FBR), principles.
- Fuels, coolants, moderators, reflectors.
- Absorption and shielding materials, materials for pressure vessels of nuclear reactors.
- Uranium, alloys, compounds, metallurgical bases for production of chemically clean uranium compounds.
- Production of metallic uranium and UO2, enrichment of uranium.
- Properties and metallurgical bases for production of Th and Pu.
- Re-processing of spent fuel.
- Coating materials (Al, Mg, Zr, Be), general requirements and characteristic properties of individual types of materials.
- Moderators, reflectors, absorption materials – material solutions, characteristic properties. Influence of irradiation on properties of materials for nuclear reactors.

E-learning

E-výuka (KURSA, M., SZURMAN, I.: Materiály pro jadernou techniku, učební texty. VŠB TU Ostrava 2013, 146s.)

Literature

Construction technologies for nuclear power plants. Vienna: International atomic energy agency, 2011. ISBN 978-92-0-119510-4 .
Dostupné z: https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/P1526_Web.pdf.
Nuclear Power Reactors in the World. Vienna: International atomic energy agency, 2012. ISBN 978–92–0–119510–4.
Dostupné z: https://www-pub.iaea.org/books/iaeabooks/8954/Nuclear-Power-Reactors-in-the-World.
Journal of nuclear materials. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1959-. ISSN 0022-3115 .
Nuclear energy: an introduction to the concepts, systems, and applications of nuclear process. 5th ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7506-7136-1 .

Advised literature

Fast reactor database. Vienna: International atomic energy agency, 2006. ISBN 92–0–114206–4. Dostupné z: https://www-pub.iaea.org/books/iaeabooks/7581/fast-reactor-database-2006-update.


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