This Page Catalog Description 428 Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. Experiments on reactor operation, flux measurement, measurements of reactor parameters, using pool type reactor. One three-hour lab per week. Knowledge of health physics instruments and the abilities to conduct radiation surveys and activation analysis are considered particularly important. The text for the course is a series of experiment procedures which may be purchased from Bob's Copy Shop on the corner of Randall and Campus Drive.
Special emphasis is placed on the abstract and the treatment of uncertainty.
This course is particularly valuable for those students who are planning to make a career in the nuclear power industry. The course permits students to compare and contrast the theoretical models of reactor behavior with the actual behavior of a real reactor. This course primarily serves students in the department. The information below describes how the course contributes to the undergraduate program objectives. NEEP 428 supports the NE program's objectives in that it provides students with the opportunity to use instruments in the reactor lab to measure a variety of radiation levels, as well as perform the data acqusition and interpretation associated with those analyses.