NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Nuclear Engineering Section
NTUA-Nuclear Engineering Section
COURSES GIVEN
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NUCLEAR ENGINEERING I
(Basic Concepts of Nuclear Reactors)
Basic Concepts of Nuclear Physics. Neutron nuclear reactions.
Nuclear fission. Basic Concepts of Nuclear Reactors. Power
reactors. Laws of elastic scattering. Diffusion of monoenergetic
neutrons.
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NUCLEAR ENGINEERING II
(Nuclear Power Plants)
Neutron moderation and thermalisation. Criticality of bare
homogeneous thermal neutron systems and systems with reflector.
Nuclear Power Plants. Steady-state heat removal from nuclear
reactors. Thermodynamic cycles and energy production.
Nuclear reactor safety and accidents. Industrial application
of nuclear technology.
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ADVANCED NUCLEAR ENGINEERING I
(Interaction of radiation with matter, Radiation Protection,
Radiation Shielding)
Interaction of proton like particles, fission fragments, beta
particles, gamma rays and neutrons with matter. Radiation
Dosimetry. Tissue Dose calculations from disturbed radioisotopes.
Exposure of human organism to radiations. Radiation Protection.
Dispersion of Radioactive Effluents from Nuclear Facilities.
Computation of Exposure and Dose. Radiation Shielding.
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ADVANCED NUCLEAR ENGINEERING II
(Criticality Calculations for heterogeneous systems, Reactor
kinetics, Heat removal from nuclear reactors)
- Reactor kinetics. Control rods. Reactivity changes during
operation, nuclear poisoning. Nuclear fuel cycle.
- Thermodynamic and thermohydraulic analysis of nuclear
reactors. Transient phenomena, loss-of-coolant accidents.
Thermophysical properties of reactor coolants and moderetors.
- Safety aspects. Criteria for site selection. Methods for
detecting nuclear effluents and natural radioisotopes in the
environment. Nuclear engineering computer codes.
Laboratory work: Steady-state and transient single and two-phase
flow in water cooled nuclear reactors. Detection of radioisotopes
in the environment, geographical mappings. Measurements of radioactive
aerosols.
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EXPERIMENTAL NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
General aspects of detectors and detecting systems. Statistics of
detection systems. Ionization chambers. Proportional counters.
Geiger-Mueller counters. Scintillation detectors. Semiconductor
radiation detectors. Neutron detectors.
Laboratory: Familiarization with the instruments and methods of
Nuclear Radiation Detection.
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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
(Imaging Machines and Radiotherapy Equipment)
Diagnostic radiology machines. Transmission computed tomography
machines. Nuclear magnetic resonance machines. Cobalt 60 units.
Betatrons. Linear Accelerators. Cyclotrons. Whole body counters.
Production and management of radiopharmaceuticals.
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MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS & LABORATORY
- Theory. Statistics of measuring systems - Error analysis
- Applied regression analysis - Recording results - Planning and
conducting experiments - Comparative experiments - Factorial
experiments - Simulation - Computer simulation techniques.
The digital computer on-line to measuring systems to
perform real-time data acquisition, processing and control.
- Laboratory work. Application of the laws of statistics
- Comparative and factorial experiments - Experiments of
evaluation - Real-time computer based measuring systems.
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PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
Selection from the basic laws and principles of Physics.
Structure and properties of matter. Electrical conductivity of
matter. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
(LASER). Ionising radiation. Modern sources of Energy.
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