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Basic course in Nuclear Power Safety, given as mandatory course in the MSc Program “Nuclear Energy Engineering” at Department of Physics.
Contact person:
Weimin Ma (weimin@kth.se)
Division of Nuclear Power Safety
Course Objectives
Nuclear power safety is a highly multidisciplinary subject with diverse topics, ranging from risk perception to multiphase flow regimes. This course aims to instill in students not only basic principles and concepts, but also philosophy of nuclear power safety, as well as incentive to study further. Learning-by-doing approach will help achieve the course objective.
Nuclear Power Safety (NPS) is paramount to both economic performance and public acceptance of nuclear power. The ultimate mission of NPS is to ensure that release of radioactive materials from a nuclear power plant and its effect on plant personnel, public health and environment is as low as reasonably achievable. The technical contents of NPS address both Probability and Consequence of the radioactive release from the plant under normal, abnormal and accident conditions, including severe accidents. The NPS course aims to provide students with basics they need to be able to address the following questions: What are possible accidents? How do they occur? How often they occur? What are consequences? Given fundamental knowledge of NPS, students can identify and apply appropriate concepts for prevention of accidents and mitigation of their consequences.
After the NPS course you shall possess a basic understanding of the principles, issues and tools in nuclear power safety. The Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) are achieved if you demonstrate that you are able to:
ILO1 and ILO2 require declarative knowledge of the risk of nuclear installations; history, philosophy and principles of nuclear power safety; safety design requirements, and functioning knowledge on how to apply them to achieve safety requirements in design, construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
ILO2 also addresses both declarative knowledge on state of the art in understanding of (i) how accidents occur and progress, and (ii) measures utilized for prevention and mitigation of accidents; and functioning knowledge on why and how different stages of the accidents scenarios require different countermeasures (preventive and mitigative), and consequences of mistakes in selection of accident management strategy.
ILO3 is focused on development of high-level functioning knowledge. The task (scoping assessment of a perceived threat) will require students to make a step beyond common acceptances in order to question high safety standards of existing and future reactor designs.
Course content
The course addresses both fundamentals of safety design and methods for safety analysis of nuclear power plants, with emphasis on Light Water Reactors. Topics covered include
Course instruction
The course workload is distributed as follows:
Examination
To pass the course you should
The grade for each element is pass/fail.