|
Instructors: Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Lauer
Event type:
Lecture
Org-unit: Dept. 16 - Mechanical Engineering
Displayed in timetable as:
Kernenergie
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Course Contents:
Overview of Nuclear Energy from uranium mining to final storage of radioactive waste:
- worldwide nuclear energy situation and trends, fuel cycles, uranium
mining, enrichement, fuel fabrication and assembling
- nuclear physics elements
- fission, critical size of a reactor, thermohydraulics of the core
- principal types of nuclear power plants (early prototype reactors,
so-called Generation I; commercial power plants, so-called
Generation II)
- design, main components and safety features of a nuclear power plant
(exemple: Pressurized Water Reactor- PWR)
- normal operation (control, protection and safety systems), design
basis accidents (exemple PWR)
- selected severe accidents (Windscale, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl)
- beyond design basis accidents, emergency preparedness, environmental
aspects, safety assessment according to german atomic energy act
- future role of nuclear energy systems (so-called Generation III and IV
and fusion systems)
- fuel and radioactive waste management, transport of spent fuel,
interim and final storage of spent fuel and radioactive waste
- decommissioning of a plant, rudiments of radiological protection and
of radiation dose control, german reporting criteria for reportable
events
- visit of Biblis Nuclear Power Plant
Literature:
working copies,
Basiswissen Kernenergie, Informationskreis KernEnergie,
Radioaktivität und Strahlenschutz, Informationskreis KernEnergie,
Chart of the Nuclides,
Der Reaktorunfall in Tschernobyl, Informationskreis KernEnergie
(all documents available in the course)
Preconditions:
intermediate examination or bachelor
thermodynamics, energetics, rudiments of automatic control
|
