THORIUM AS AN ENERGY SOURCE - Opportunities for Norway ...

Thorium as an Energy Source - Opportunities for Norway
15. APPENDIX C: EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Finland:
The following courses are initiated or will be started at Åbo Akademi:
• Fall 2006 Nuclear Structure
• Spring 2007 Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems I (ENES-I)
• Spring 2007 Radiation Safety
• Fall 2007 Radiation Safety Laboratory
• Fall 2007 Nuclear Physics
• Spring 2008 Radiation Safety (+ Laboratory if needed)
• Spring 2008 Not yet decided, may be ENES-I/II or Reactor Physics
The program has been discussed with the following parties and has received very positive
response from the following institutions:
Olkiluoto Reactor Plant, Helsinki University of Technology, Advanced Energy Systems, Fortum
Nuclear Services, STUK, the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Technical Faculty
of Åbo Akademi, Neutron Physics, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm.
Sweden:
Göteborg, Chalmers University of Technology:
Undergraduate courses in nuclear engineering are collected as a special “line” (inriktning in
Swedish) in the master program in “Applied Physics”. A volume of 30 ECTS in nuclear
engineering courses, divided to 4 courses, each consisting of 7.5 ECTS. The courses are given
jointly by the groups (formerly departments) of Nuclear Engineering and Nuclear Chemistry,
Chalmers. All courses are given during the fall semester, whereas the spring is designated for the
master thesis (diploma) work.
The courses contain about 2 laboratory exercises per package, with written reports. In the spring
term, or incidentally in the summer, the students perform a one-week long laboratory course at
reactors at a research institute. During a very long period, these were made in Studsvik. Since
the closing of the R2 and R2-0 reactors in Studsvik, the laboratory exercises were performed at
the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute. The current course package is meant to
represent a broad basis in nuclear engineering, and has, in an overview, the following content
shown in the Table 15.1 below.
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