If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
The home assignments are designed in a way to ensure that all course objectives are included.
1) A 3-4 page essay on ”Can mistakes made yesterday help to prevent the proliferation of nuclear materials today?” The essay will be peer reviewed and then assessed by the teacher.
2) A debate on the proliferation risks associated to a particular reactor system. Groups of 2-3 people are assigned a task to either defend Generation III or Generation IV systems from the perspective of non-proliferation. The respective groups are then to present their positions to each other and defend their opinions based on their learning outcomes.
3) A computational exercise involving calculations of alpha-eigenvalues, neutron emission rates and heat production for actinide compositions present in spent fuel of various reactor types. The result of the exercise is an assessment of to what extent the assigned materials and reactor types are of concern for non-proliferation matters, with or without chemical separation of minor actinides.
This course is graded on a pass/fail scale. In order to pass you should:
- actively participate in all course meetings. If you cannot attend a meeting, report this in advance, and you will be given an extra written assignment to replace the meeting you missed.
- deliver all home assignments according to the description below
- have an individual discussion with the teacher about the contents of the home assignments over 30-40 minutes. The discussion is considered to be successful if you meet all of the above stated course objectives.