MULTIMEDIA ON NUCLEAR REACTOR PHYSICS

Version 4.0 by Javier Dies, Francesc Puig, Claubia Pereira

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Abstract

In order to improve the quality in nuclear engineering education and training programs this present Multimedia on Nuclear Reactor Physics is being developed since 2001.

The teachers use the multimedia during their lectures and students use it at home to study this course.

This multimedia has been used in Nuclear Reactor Physics course for:

Engineers in Master of Nuclear Engineering at Technical University of Catalonia.

Training for engineers, chemistries, informatics, etc., at Nuclear Power Plant, modular course 2 weeks.

Training Operators of Nuclear Power Plants.

When the multimedia is used for courses 2 and 3, it is useful to skip the chapters 5 and 6.

Nowadays, this multimedia has about 785 slides and the text is in English, Spanish and French.

The same CD-ROM has the three languages. The user chooses the language that they want.

The figures, animations, tables and equations are the same in the three languages English, Spanish, and French; the only difference is the text language.

The multimedia has the following content:

Introduction to the Nuclear Energy: Nuclear reactor operation principle, Historical introduction and current situation of the fission nuclear energy profit. (159 slides).

Neutron interaction: Reactions types. Cross sections according to the energy, Neutron scattering, Moderation power and reason, Westcott factors. (84 slides).

Fission process in a nuclear reactor: Fission reaction, Conversion and reproduction, Fission energy, Nuclear reactor power, Fuel consumption, fission products. (65 slides).

Neutron multiplication in a nuclear reactor: The multiplication factor, The four and six factors formula, Critical mass. (52 slides)

Neutron balance in a material medium: Neutron transport theory, Transport equation solutions, Neutron diffusion theory, Fick’s law, Validity conditions, Physical interpretation, Limit Conditions. (45 slides)

Criticality in multiplier medium: Multiplication coefficient, Criticality of the bare homogeneous reactor, Criticality calculation by using of the multigroup model, Criticality determination with reflector. (29 slides)

Reactor kinetics: Delayed and non delayed neutrons, Reactivity equation for six delayed neutron groups, Small reactivities, Flux evolution. (95 slides)

Control rod effect: Control-rod Worth, Differential and integral value. (64 slides).

Soluble poisons: Reactivity effect calculation. (13 slides)

Burnable poisons: Location, Reactivity effect calculation. (18 slides)

Reactivity temperature effects: Feedback coefficients, Stability, Fuel temperature coefficient, Moderator temperature coefficient. (51 slides)

Fission products poisoning: Dead Time, Xenon space oscillations, Samarium effects. (53 slides)

Neutron Sources: Intrinsic and external sources, Sub critical multiplication, Bending curves. (58 slides)

An agreement with the IAEA has achieved in order to distribute the English version of the Multimedia world scope, for non commercial proposes.
The Agency will provide access for the multimedia for non commercial proposes as once it goes out in the universities; it can be copied as much as, free of cost. Actually IAEA is implementing the distribution methodology that will be ready very soon.
The multimedia has been presented in the Asian Network for Education in Nuclear Technology (ANENT) and in Latin America Network for Education in Nuclear Technology (LANENT) (actually in creation process).
And greement with Xinexus-nuclear has been achieved in order to distribute the Multimedia on Nuclear Reactor Physics (English, Spanish, and French) world scope.

It is planned to provide an access on this page to the complete multimedia on nuclear reactor physics (English, Spanish, and French) free of cost during one hour.

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