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• Check to ensure that your name and correct e-mail address are on the course e-mail_list (xls).
• Midterm exam 2009 March 4; Duration: 2 Hours, Closed Book , 1 One-Sided 8.5”x11” Crib Sheet Allowed, Calculator Permitted
• Final exam: 2009 April 22, 5-8 pm. Duration: 3 Hours, Closed Book, 1 Double-Sided or 2 Single-Sided 8.5”x11” Crib Sheet(s) Allowed, Calculator Permitted.
• Course finished

• Instructor: Dr. Ben Rouben, roubenb@mcmaster.ca and roubenb@alum.mit.edu. Office hours: Wednesdays after lecture, or by e-mail any time.

Course Description and Administrative Details (Tentative):

Schedule:

• Lecture time slots: Wednesdays 5:00-8:00 pm, videoconference in SP1 Conference Room B and Keys videoconference room.

• First lecture is on Wednesday 2009 January 7.

Some Lecture Material (in order of presentation):

• 1_Fundamental_Concepts_&_Neutron_Cycle
• 2_Operators
• 3_Neutron_Balance
• 4_Source-Sink_Problems_in_1_Energy_Group (ppt, 325 kb)
• 5_The_Infinite_Lattice_in_1_Energy_Group
• 6_The_Finite_Reactor_in_1_Energy_Group
• 7_Flux_Shape_in_Various_Reactor_Geometries_in_1_Energy_Group
• 8_Subcritical_Multiplication_&_Approach_to_Criticality
• 9_4-Factor_Formula_for_k-inf
• 10_Diffusion_in_2_Energy_Groups
• 11_Solving_the_Diffusion_Equation_Numerically
• 12_Evolution_of_Lattice_Properties
• 13_CANDU_Reactivty_Devices
• 14_Energy_Dependence_of_Neutron_Flux
• 15_Neutron_Slowing_Down: Kinematics
• 16_Neutron_Slowing-Down_Spectrum
• 17_Resonance_Absorption
• 18_Kinetics
• 19_Kinetics_Without_Delayed_Neutrons
• 20_Kinetics_Wth_Delayed_Neutrons
• 21_Reactivity_Coefficients
• 22_Xenon_Effects
• 23_CANDU_Fuel_Management
• Coupled Neutronics-Thermalhydraulics Calculations
• CANDU_Fuel_Management (previous file)
• Exkin_Program
• Exkin_run_file

Previous Webpage:

• Prof. Bill Garland used to teach 4D03/6D03. His webpage for this course is at http://www.nuceng.ca/ep4d3/ep4d3index.htm

Errata in Duderstadt and Hamilton (1976 Edition):

• Errata file 1 (pdf, 22 kb)
• Errata file 2 (pdf, 24 kb)
• Errata file 3 (WORD, 24 kb)

Assignments:

• Assignment 1 (due 2009/01/14)
• Assignment 2 (due 2009/01/21)
• Assignment 3 (due 2009/02/04)
• Assignment 4 (due 2009/02/11)
• Assignment 5 (due 2009/02/18)
• Assignment 6 (due 2009/02/27)
• Assignment 7 (due 2009/03/18)

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