Lecture Notes

Selected lecture notes are published in the table below.

LEC # TOPICS LECTURES
1 Introduction – Front end Overview  
2 Front & Design Center  
3 Core Design Criteria - Physics (PDF)
4 Core Design Criteria - Engineering  
5 In-Core Aspects (PDF)
6 In-Core Aspects (cont.)  
7 Fuel Cycle & Operations Economics (PDF)
8 Fuel Cycle & Operational Economics (cont.) (PDF)
9 Fast Reactors  
10 HTGR  
11 CANDU Physics, Fuel Cycle, Limits  
12 High Level Waste  
13 Coupled Reactor Analysis  
14 Lab Period / Tutorial  
15 Initial Project Presentations  
16 Initial Project Presentations (cont.)  
17 Options for Actinide Management 1  
18 Covering Lab 4 / Discussing lab 5  
19 Fuel Manufacturing & Eng. Design  
20 Proliferation Extrinsic Issues 1  
21 Fuel Performance During Irradiation  
22 Thorium Fuel Cycles  
23 Lab 5 Discussion  
24 Options for Actinide Management 2  
25 Actinide Separation Technology  
26 Fuel Cycle Systems Simulation (PDF – 1.3MB)
27 Term Paper Presentations  
28 Term Paper Presentations (cont.)