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Course Outline

Public files
Syllabus
COE Distance Education Resources
 
# Date Lesson
Computational
Reading/HW
1
8/20/09
 Introduction 
Fundamental concepts
 
2
8/27/09
Review of reactor theory
International standards
ANS standards
Chapter 1 
Chapter 2
Chapter 4
3
9/3/09
Critical and subcritical experiments
Transient experiments
General features of transport theory
Cross sections
 Chapter 5
[HW#1]
4
9/10/09
Validation/Subcritical limit
Surface Density/Density analog
 Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Appendix A
Appendix B
5
9/17/09
Discrete ordinates overview
Monte Carlo overview
Chapter 6
[HW#6]

9/24/09
Parametric overview: MAGICMERV
Review for Midterm



10/1/09
Midterm Test


10/8/09
  Overview of criticality safety evaluations
Overview of SCALE

[HW#2]
Chapter 3

10/15/09
--Fall Break--



10/22/09
Contingency analysis Parametric studies
Project description
[HW#3]
 Chapter 10
7
10/29/09
--Class cancelled for Engineers' Day--


 8
11/5/09
 Layout of main calculations
Controls and Postings
  Technical reviews
Validation
[HW#4]
 Chapter 11

11/12/09
Criticality accident reports
(Criticality accident reports, cont'd)
[HW#5]
Interim Report #1 due (TR)
11/19/09
(Criticality accident reports, cont'd)
(Criticality accident reports, cont'd)
(Review Chap 11)
Interim Report #2 due (SE)
 
11/26/09
--Thanksgiving vacation--


 
12/3/09
Final report due
by e-mail by midnight
 
 




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