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Course Descriptions/Nuclear Engineering 513605. Radiation Detection and Nuclear Materials Measurement. (2-3). Credit 3. Laboratory-basedcourse studying the fundamentals of nuclear materials measurements; advanced radiation detectioninstrumentation with a specific focus on measuring nuclear materials (uranium, plutonium, and otheractinides); nuclear material measurements include detection, identification, and quantification of thematerials in a fuel cycle facility and in the field. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.606. Reactor Analysis and Experimentation. (3-3). Credit 4. Perturbation theory; delayed neutrons andreactor kinetics; lattice physics calculations; full core calculations; analysis and measurement of reactivitycoefficients; analysis and measurement of flux distribution; analysis and measurement of rod worths;critical and subcritical experiments. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.607. Plasma and Thermonuclear Engineering. (3-0). Credit. 3. Fusion reactions, orbit theory in magneticand electric fields, coulomb interactions, formulation of Boltzmann equation; magnetohydrodynamics,plasma waves and application configurations. Prerequisites: MATH 601 or registration therein;basic circuits; NUEN 417 or approval of instructor; nuclear engineering, electrical engineering or physicsmajors recommended.609. Nuclear Reactor Safety. (3-0). Credit 3. Analysis and evaluation applied to reactor design for accidentprevention and mitigation; protective systems and their reliability, containment design, emergency coolingrequirements, reactivity excursions and the atmospheric dispersion of radioactive material; safetyproblems associated with light-water power reactors and proposed fast reactor systems. Prerequisites:NUEN 601 and NUEN 623 or approval of instructor.610. Design of Nuclear Reactors. (4-0). Credit 4. Application of fundamentals of nuclear physics andreactor theory with engineering fundamentals to design of nuclear reactors. Prerequisites: NUEN 602or registration therein; NUEN 410 or approval of instructor.611. Radiation Detection and Measurement. (2-3). Credit 3. Interactions of radiation with matter behaviorof various nuclear radiation detectors studied both theoretically and experimentally in the laboratory;properties of radionuclides useful to industry and medicine considered and evaluated from anengineering point of view. Prerequisite: Graduate classification, enrollment in NUEN 613 or instructorapproval.612. Radiological Safety and Hazards Evaluation. (3-0). Credit 3. State and Federal regulations concerningradioactive materials; radiation safety as applied to accelerators, nuclear reactors, medicaltherapy and diagnostic devices, and radioactive byproducts; rigorous methods of analysis applied tocomputation of biological radiation dose and dose rates from various sources and geometries; radiationeffects on physical systems. Prerequisites: NUEN 613; MATH 308.613. Principles of Radiological Safety. (3-0). Credit 3. Rigorous mathematical and physical approach tovarious aspects of radiological safety; derivation of equations involving radiation absorption, radiationdosimetry and calculations of radiation dose due to internal emitters; mathematical models relatingto radionuclide concentrations in tumor, normal tissue, air or water to whole body dose. Prerequisite:NUEN 409.614. Probabilistic Risk Assessment Techniques in Nuclear Systems. (3-0). Credit 3. Current and proposedtechniques for determining the reliability of nuclear plant systems and the risk associated with theoperation of these advanced technology systems. Prerequisites: NUEN 612 and NUEN 613.615. Theory and Applications of Microdosimetry. (3-0). Credit 3. Theory, measurement, and calculationof microdosimeric spectra; practical applications of microdosimetry in the determination of absorbeddose distribution within tissue, the statistical fluctuations of absorbed dose at the cellular andsubcellular level, and the impact of microdosimetry on radiation protection guidelines. Prerequisite:NUEN 613.618. Multiphysics Computations in Nuclear Science and Engineering. (2-2). Credit 3. Tightly coupledmultiphysics simulation techniques and application to typical problems arising in nuclear science andengineering (reactor dynamics and safety transients, conjugate heat transfer, radiative transfer, fluidstructure interaction). Prerequisites: MATH 609 and NUEN 606.619. Multivariable Control System Design. (3-0). Credit 3. Advanced issues relevant to the design ofmultivariable control systems using hybrid (time and frequency domain) design methodologies; designusing the LQG/LTR method and advanced practical applications using various robust control systemdesign techniques. Prerequisite: MEEN 651 or ECEN 605. Cross-listed with MEEN 652.