Hello, hello! Wot's this, then?
This is a site for students and others interested in Nuclear Engineering as it
relates to the program in the Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University.
Enjoy. Listen to a short introduction to the site (1.0Mb exe file).
- Help - Have a quick look to get oriented and to find
helpful tips on using this site, including how to contact
me. Suggestions and comments are welcome. But before you do, check out
the site FAQ page. Perhaps your question has already
been answered.
- FAQ - Frequently asked questions for this site.
- Careers page - links to full-time and summer
career and job information, including at our own reactor - Jobs, jobs,
jobs!!! Now contains articles relating to supply and demand.
- Downloads (Computer Codes) Related to the Nuclear Industry.
- Canadian Nuclear Society Universities Committee
- a committee devoted to assist in the coordination the activities of Canadian
universities with nuclear programs, including the CNS Student conferences.
- McMaster Nuclear
Reactor (tours available) - You haven't lived until you have seen
the light! See
the movie - Hey Barry, you're famous!
- Humour - Take a break from work.
- Contribute to, or comment on, this site via the NucEng wiki.
- Looking for information related to the overall Canadian Nuclear Enterprise? Check out the portal www.nuclearcanada.ca. This site is wiki-based so you can add your contributions to the site.
- Introductory Nuclear Educational Material - for high school and grade school teachers.
- Nuclear Facts and Opinions - to help you put nuclear energy into proper societal context.
- Looking for general nuclear info, courses, links, technical reports, etc.?
Check out the links below. This site contains complete lecture notes, worked problems and actual lecture recordings (screen and audio capture). Check it out and enjoy!
Announcements
- Well, what do you know! This site was named to OEDb's Top 100 Open Courseware Projects list, which is available here -- http://oedb.org/library/features/top-100-open-courseware-projects. And it is listed on 100 Excellent Ivy League Open Courses for Engineers at toponlineengineeringdegree.com/?page_id=55
- Seminar: The CANDU Program and AECL by Ben Rouben, AECL, Slides (pdf 2.9Mb), Recorded seminar (exe 55.6Mb) on 2007.01.11 at McMaster University. Listen to Ben's review of CANDU history, AECL's role, and current opportunities. Focused on reactor physics. Well worth the rather large download (sorry about that but it is the best we candu).
- Seminar: Searching for a Sustainable Energy Future (pdf 51kb) by Dr. Patrick Moore (bio, pdf 84kb), co-founder of Greenpeace, currently Chair and Chief Scientist of Greenspirit Strategies. This is dynamite stuff. Burke Science Building, room B135, 2:00 to 3:30, March 29, 2006 (Wednesday). If you are not familiar with the campus, see here. You can listen to essentially the same seminar here.
- UNENE news item in the McMaster Daily News (pdf version 35kb)
Seminar: Medical Radioisotope Production: Where Next? (pdf 5.0Mb) by Dr. Eleodor Nichita of UOIT, CNS Toronto Branch seminar, 2009-06-29.
Nuclear Educational Initiatives in Canada
- Who's Who - Find out where to study Nuclear Science and Engineering Research and Education, who is doing what and where.
- Nuclear Courses offered in Canada - a convenient list of and links to all nuclear related courses offered in Canada.
- Also, see the official Engineering Physics department site. Check out the FAQ as well.
- Nuclear Technology Diploma - course-based program offered by the Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University.
- UNENE, the University Network of Excellence in Nuclear Engineering, is offering a inter-university Master's degree program.
- CANTEACH - CANDU technical information, an industry, university, CNS initiative that began in January 2000 with the mandate to produce technical educational material on CANDU.
- CNS Conferences and Courses - check here for the latest news on upcoming conferences and courses sponsored by the Canadian Nuclear Society (Student Conference, Annual Conference, Nuclear Simulation Symposium, ...).
- Check out this page below for other nuclear information resources.
- Looking for information related to the overall Canadian Nuclear Enterprise? Check out the portal www.nuclearcanada.ca.
Research Information
Course Information
Nuclear Links and Downloads
- Looking for information related to the overall Canadian Nuclear Enterprise? Check out the portal www.nuclearcanada.ca. This site is wiki-based so you can add your contributions to the site.
- Great McMaster nuclear links
- Great Canadian sites
- CANTEACH - an
industry, university, CNS initiative that began in January 2000 with the
mandate to produce technical educational material on CANDU.
- Canadian
Universities/ Universités Canadiennes - a link to links!
- Canadian Nuclear Society
(a nuclear society for the individual, lots of nuclear links here, job
listings, etc.) - Join today - be part of the nuclear network - be
part of the solution. Some quick links to education related pages:
- Canadian Nuclear Society Universities
Committee - a committee devoted to assist in the coordination
the activities of Canadian universities with nuclear programs, including
the CNS Student conferences. Find the student conference proceedings
here. McMaster University was proud to have hosted the 25th CNS/CNA
Annual Student Conference
in March, 2000.
- Canadian Nuclear Society Education
and Communication Committee (a committee devoted to facilitating
the exchange of information between CNS members and the public, and
to develop educational programs (at the junior high school and high
school level) in this regard. - Outreach, outreach, outreach ...
- CNS
Manitoba Branch page - lots of good info here (performance data,
maps, history ..., thanks to Morgan Brown - Go, Morgan!
- Canadian Nuclear FAQ
(by a former student, Jeremy Whitlock) - Go, Jeremy!
- CNA - The Canadian Nuclear
Association is an association of many industries and enterprises sharing
a common interest in the development and application of nuclear energy
for peaceful purposes. Members include uranium producers, reactor manufacturers,
electrical utilities, engineering companies, banks, employee unions,departments
of federal and provincial governments, and educational establishments.
- UNENE, the University
Network of Excellence in Nuclear Engineering is an alliance of universities,
nuclear power utilities, research and regulatory agencies for the support
and development of nuclear education, research and development capability
in Canadian universities.
- The NWMO is a new organization created to recommend a long-term approach for managing used nuclear fuel produced by Canada's electricity generators. Their final report is available as of 2005.11.03.
- Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy (Canada) (EFN-CANADA) - a Canadian federally incorporated not-for-profit organization whose objects are to provide complete and straightforward information about energy and the environment, to make known the advantages of nuclear energy, and especially the environmental benefits, to bring together persons favouring the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes with respect for the environment and with proper management of nuclear waste.
- WiN - Women in Nuclear Canada - A world-wide association of women working professionally in various fields of nuclear energy and radiation applications.
- Computer Codes / Simulations / Simulators
- Henrick Ericksson's Nuclear Power Plant Simulation
Java Applet - Pretty neat! - Please note that you must have
a Java compatible browser.
- CANDU desktop simulator by CTI
SImulation International - Nice! This is the simulator used
in the course Engineering Physics 704
(Nuclear Power Plant Systems and Operation).
- Radiation
Safety Information Computational Cente (RSIC) - Oak Ridge National
Laboratory. Hundreds of industry standard nuclear codes.
- The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Databank
is a specialised agency within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and development (OECD), an intergovernmental organisation of industrialised
countries, based in Paris, France. Codes listed here are not available
to Canada and US since the codes are available through RSIC (see above).
- T-2 Nuclear Information
Service - This service is run by Group T-16 (Nuclear Physics) of the
Theoretical Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is operated
by the University of California for the US Department of Energy. Contains
reactor physics codes, data and educational tours.
- See also the Download page.
- International Societies
- American Nuclear Society
- The Division
of Physics Education (DPE) is dedicated to the advancement and sharing
of pedagogy related to physics education. The scope of the mandate includes
all aspects of physics education at the secondary and post-secondary school
levels, and in the community as a whole.
- The University of Texas ANS Student
Chapter - an excellent site.
- The International
Nuclear Society Council (INSC) is an organization whose Member Societies
represent more than 50,000 nuclear professionals around the world. Their
"Worldwide
Integrated View on Main Nuclear Energy Issues" is a good read.
- RadWaste.org -
guide to radioactive waste resources on the Internet. The award winning
WasteLink directory includes more than 5000 links to radwaste, nuclear,
and radiation related companies, research centres, regulatory agencies,
government organizations, non-governmental organizations, etc. An excellent,
balanced site.
- Nuclear
Engineering Source Book - an excellent source of nuclear engineering
educational information brought to you by the North Carolina State University
Department of Nuclear Engineering.
- WONC, World Council
of Nuclear Workers - for the defence of nuclear energy and the creation
and development of relationships between the representative organizations
of nuclear industry workers.
- Radiation,
Science, and Health is an international non-profit organization, organized
by independent individuals, knowledgeable in the radiation health effects
science, and in the associated public policy. They are knowledgeable of
the misrepresentations of the data, and the waste of public resources,
to support radiation protection policy, that provide NO public health
benefit. You'll find the UNSCEAR
(United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation)
reports here.
- U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) - to ensure adequate protection of the public health
and safety, the common defense and security, and the environment in the
use of nuclear materials in the United States. Has a nice reference library
and a student's corner.
- WNA - World Nuclear Association - The WNA's role is to support the global nuclear energy industry through
working groups, key policy forums and conferences. In particular see:
- News sources
- NucNet
- news about the most important developments in nuclear power world-wide
- WNN - World Nuclear News, the foremost international nuclear news service
- Personal sites
- Government and related agencies
- Links to links
- Nuclear Info WebRing -
This web ring is dedicated to presenting factual information about nuclear
power, radioactive waste, and radiation related issues. Many links.
- 1 Nuclear Place
- a comprehensive guide to nuclear news and information on the internet,
jobs, bookstore, classifieds and more. Very comprehensive for such a new
site.
- NuclearMarket.com
- A valuable resource for professionals in the Nuclear Industry featuring
news, a buyer's guide, procurement opportunities, jobs, conference details
and much more. The site is hosted by NuclearMarket.com, a private business
based in London. Site information is posted by individual member companies.
Students can register their profile at the Career Center and will be informed
by email each time a relevant job notice is posted by one of the members.
- Training material
- Reactors around the world
- The Pebble
Bed Modular Reactor - South African site about the helium-cooled,
graphite-moderated high temperature reactor (HTR).
- The Indian Nuclear Power Corporation
operates 8 CANDUs or CANDU-copies (at least three more under construction),
based on the Douglas Point 220 MWe large prototype CANDU. Included in
the site is their journal Nu-Power, with an article on the RAPS-2 retubing.
Reference Information
- a growing collection of nuclear information that you might find useful.
To read more about this, click here.
- Nuclear Facts and Opinions - Did you know
...
- Nuclear Books
- Nuclear Journals
- Nuclear Technical Reports
- Nuclear Acronyms
- Overview of Nuclear Reactors and their Uses
- a presentation given by Jeremy Whitlock, AECL to McMaster students in 1995
(with permission) (pdf 466kb)
- Chernobyl information
- Radiation information
- The electrical blackout of August, 2003
- The Medical Isotope Crisis
- My reading list - collection of odds and sods, most of which provide food for thought
- Nuclear Outreach - on communicating to the public, the media and to the anti-nukes.
- Introductory Nuclear Educational Material
- How and why is CANDU designed the way it is - an introduction. Powerpoint presentation (ppt 9.0Mb), Text (pdf 667kb). Listen to the presentation (with audio) as a web-based slide show (click on the slideshow icon in the lower right corner) or download the presentation with audio included (a huge ppt file 46Mb).
- The ABC's of Nuclear Science - A brief introduction sponsored by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
- Atomic Alchemy: Nuclear Processes - nuclear basics produced by students. Some neat animated graphics.
- UIC - Uranium Information Centre, Melbourne, Australia. Information on nuclear energy for electricity, and uranium for it. Great educational information at the high school level.
- Nuclear Science and Engineering - an introduction by the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) , India. This material was graciously supplied by P.Swaminathan, Director Electronics and Instrumentation Group, IGCAR, Kalpakkam, July 2005.
- CNA Education Resources The Nuclear Science Technology High School Curriculum Website is a tool developed to explain nuclear energy to the public and specifically to students from grades 9–12. The website includes fact sheets, instructional media, videos, animations explaining scientific information, games, electronic publications and other resource materials. More than 50 lesson plans, classroom activities, project descriptions and question and answer sheets will be made available to teachers through their respective Ministries of Education. The modules focus on eight key areas: Canada’s Nuclear History, Atomic Theory, What is Radiation?, Biological Effects of Radiation, World Energy Sources, Nuclear Technology at Work, Safety in the Nuclear Industry, and Career information.
- World Nuclear Association Public Information Service - lots of general educational material here
- ...
Nuclear Newsgroups
- these newsgroups exist but there is not much activity
on them from what I can gather.
- alt.energy.nuclear
- alt.nuclear.engineering
- alt.engr.nuclear
Nuclear List servers (email groups)
Links to the Department of Engineering Physics
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