| # |
Date |
Lesson |
Computational
|
Reading/HW |
| 1 |
8/21/08
|
Introduction
|
Fundamental
concepts
|
|
|
2
|
8/28/08
|
Review of reactor theory
|
International standards
ANS standards
|
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 4
|
|
3
|
9/4/08
|
Critical
and subcritical experiments
Transient experiments
|
General features of transport theory
Cross sections
|
Chapter 5
[HW#1]
|
| 4 |
9/11/08
|
Validation/Subcritical limit
|
Surface Density/Density analog
|
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Appendix A
Appendix B
|
|
5
|
9/18/08
|
Discrete ordinates overview
|
Monte Carlo overview
|
Chapter 6
[HW#6]
|
|
9/25/08
|
Parametric
overview: MAGICMERV
|
Review for Midterm
|
|
|
10/2/08
|
Midterm
Test |
|
|
|
10/9/08
|
--Fall Break--
|
|
|
|
10/16/08
|
--Class cancelled for Engineers' Day--
|
|
|
| 6 |
10/23/08
|
Overview
of criticality safety evaluations |
Overview
of SCALE
|
[HW#2]
Chapter
3 |
7
|
10/20/08
|
Contingency analysis
|
Parametric studies
Project
description
|
[HW#3]
Chapter
10
|
|
8
|
11/6/08
|
Layout of main calculations
|
Validation
|
[HW#4]
Chapter
11
|
9
|
11/13/08
|
Controls
and Postings
Technical reviews
|
Overview
of fuel facility applications
CAAS
alarm placement
|
[HW#5]
Interim Report #1 due (TR)
|
| |
11/20/08
|
Criticality
accident reports
|
(Criticality accident reports, cont'd)
|
(Review Chap 11)
Interim Report #2 due (SE)
|
| |
11/27/08
|
--Thanksgiving vacation--
|
|
|
|
|
12/4/08
|
Final report due
by e-mail by midnight
|
|
|
NE421 Introduction to Nuclear Criticality Safety