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• 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.

Where is my Electricity Coming From at this Hour? (if I live in Ontario)

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

• Current Research Interests (Nuclear Reactor Systems Analysis)
• Graduate Students
• Publications
• Light Water Properties Download (fast, accurate curve fits to the 1984 NRC/NBS steam tables)
• Heavy Water Properties

Course Information

• Nuclear Courses (including complete lecture notes, worked problems and actual lecture recordings (screen and audio capture) that I am or was involved in directly:
  • Engineering Physics 4D3/6D3 (Nuclear Reactor Analysis)
  • UNENE UN0802 (off-campus, modular version of EP4D3/6D3) (Nuclear Reactor Analysis)
  • Engineering Physics 4U4 (Nuclear, Computer Systems, Optics and Solid State Laboratories)
  • Engineering Physics 4P3/6P3 (2007 version) (2008 version) (Nuclear Power Plant Systems and Operation)
  • Engineering Physics 712 (Advanced Nuclear Reactor Analysis) - under construction
  • Engineering Physics 714 (Nuclear Reactor Safety Design)
  • Engineering Physics 716 (Nuclear Reactor Heat Transport System Design)
  • Engineering Physics 718 (Reactor Heat Transport System Simulation and Analysis)
  • UNENE UN0804 (off-campus, modular version of 716 and 718 combined) (Nuclear Reactor Heat Transport System Design and Analysis)
  • Science for Nuclear Energy and Radiation - a comprehensive course for Grade School and High School Science Teachers
  • An Introduction to the CANDU Nuclear Energy Conversion System by A.A. Harms, McMaster University, 1975.
• Non-nuclear Courses that I am or was involved in directly:
  • Engineering Physics 3W4 - Term II (Fourier Transforms)
  • Engineering 2C3 (Electricity, Thermophysics and Energy) - for Civil Engineers
  • Engineering Physics 2H4 / Physics 2H4 - Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics
• Other Engineering Physics Undergraduate courses
• Other Engineering Physics Graduate courses
• UNENE Joint Master's of Engineering Degree courses
• Teaching matters - helpful general information on teaching and learning for the student and the educator
• See the Downloads page for engineering software and compilers, etc.
• Essential concepts that every Nuclear Engineer should know.
• Computing tools - some suggestions.
• See also the MIT Nuclear Engineering open courseware (offsite link)

Nuclear Links and Downloads

• Looking for information related to the overall Canadian Nuclear Enterprise and international links? The links formerly posted on this site are archived here and have been moved to the portal www.nuclearcanada.ca. This site is wiki-based so you can add your contributions to that site.

Reference Information

• Nuclear Facts and Opinions - Did you know ...
• Looking for information on Nuclear Books, Journals and Technical Reports? The links formerly posted on this are archived here [Books] [Journals] [Technical Reports] and have been moved to the portal www.nuclearcanada.ca. This site is wiki-based so you can add your contributions to that site.
• 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
• Fukushima Daiichi Reactors - March 11, 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
• Radiation information
• Risk - keeping it in perspective
• The electrical blackout of August, 2003
• The Medical Isotope Crisis
• Climate change - facts and opinions
• 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

• alt.energy.nuclear
• alt.nuclear.engineering
• alt.engr.nuclear

Nuclear List servers (email groups)

Links to the Department of Engineering Physics

• Eng Phy Home Page for information on degree and diploma programs
• Nuclear Engineering Page for an overview of the department's nuclear program

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