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Engineering Physics 4D03/6D03 - Nuclear Reactor Analysis

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Instructor, Teaching Assistant:

Instructor: Dr. Ben Rouben, roubenb@mcmaster.ca and roubenb@alum.mit.edu. Office hours: Wednesdays 12:30-1:30 pm in JHE A-414, or by e-mail.
The TA for the course is Karol Kozlowski, kozlok@mcmaster.ca. Office hours: Tuesdays 4:00-7:00 pm in JHE-A328.

Course Outline (Tentative):

Course Outline (doc)

Administrative Details:

Administrative details (ppt, 137 kb)
Lecture time slots: Wednesdays 2:30-5:20 pm, MDCL 1010.
First lecture is on Wednesday Sept. 10.

Some Lecture Material (in order of presentation):

Fundamental Concepts & Neutron Cycle (ppt, 1.1 Mb)
Operators (ppt, 166 kb)
Neutron Balance (ppt, 665 kb)
Source-Sink Problems in 1 Energy Group (ppt, 260 kb)
The Infinite Lattice in One Energy Group (ppt, 184 kb)
The Finite Reactor in One Energy Group (ppt, 349 kb)
Flux Shape in Various Reactor Geometries in 1 Energy Group (ppt, 629 kb)
Subcritical Multiplication & Approach to Criticality (ppt, 136 kb)
4-Factor Formula for k-inf (ppt, 159 kb)
Diffusion in 2 Energy Groups (ppt, 249 kb)
Solving the Diffusion Equation Numerically (ppt, 1981 kb)
Evolution of Lattice Properties (ppt, 436 kb)
Kinetics (ppt, 147 kb)
Kinetics Without Delayed Neutrons (ppt, 332 kb)
Kinetics With Delayed Neutrons (ppt, 1205 kb)
Reactivity Coefficients (ppt, 1678 kb)
Xenon Effects (ppt, 639 kb)
Energy Dependence of Flux (ppt, 776 kb)

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 2008/09/17)
Assignment 2 (due 2008/09/24)
Assignment 3 (due 2008/10/01)
Assignment 4 (due 2008/10/08)
Assignment 5 (due 2008/11/06)
Assignment 6 (due 2008/11/12)
Assignment 7 (due 2008/11/19)
Assignment 8 (due 2008/11/20)

Assignment Solutions:

Assignment-1 Solutions
Assignment-2 Solutions
Assignment-3 Solutions
Assignment-4 Solutions
Assignment-5 Solutions
Assignment-6 Solutions
Assignment-7 Solutions
Assignment-8 Solutions
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Midterm-Exam:

Midterm-exam solutions

Supplementary Reading:

The following files, from a different course, give some supplementary reading on reactor-physics concepts. You can also pick up a lot of additional material from the CANTEACH site.
- Basic neutron multiplication and reactivity (pdf 238 kb)
- Basic neutron kinetics (pdf 233 kb)
- Temperature and void effects on reactivity (pdf 238 kb)
- Xenon poisoning (pdf 318 kb)

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