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MIT OpenCourseWare
Engineering of Nuclear Systems
Art: Not determined, Figure 6 of Radio-active substances, 1904 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Jacopo Buongiorno
- Term
- Fall 2010
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 24 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 22.06 Engineering of Nuclear Systems, Fall 2010, Prof. Jacopo Buongiorno — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lectures and Readings
10 files
- Lecture 1 · Course Introduction Nuclear Power Overview · Lectures Download
- Lecture 5 · Thermal Parameters + Conservation Equations · Lectures Download
- Lecture 6 · PWR and BWR Description · Lectures (file 1 of 2) Download
- Lecture 6 · PWR and BWR Description · Lectures (file 2 of 2) Download
- Lecture 7 · Other Reactor Designs (Heavy Water, Gas, Liquid Metal) · Lectures Download
- Lecture 13 · Pure Substance Model Two-Phase Coolant Flow (Parameters) · Lectures Download
- Lecture 18 · Nuclear Safety… · Lectures Download
- Lecture 22 · Dynamic Behavior of PWR · Lectures Download
- Lecture 23 · Dynamic Behavior of BWR · Lectures Download
- Lecture 24 · Advanced LWRs · Lectures Download
Assignments
10 files
Exams
- Mid-term quiz questions Mid-term quiz solutions · Files (file 1 of 2) Download
- Mid-term quiz questions Mid-term quiz solutions · Files (file 2 of 2) Download
- Final exam questions Final exam solutions · Files (file 1 of 2) Download
- Final exam questions Final exam solutions · Files (file 2 of 2) Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Nuclear power overview (cont.)
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Lecture 3: Reactor physics review
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Lecture 4: Reactor physics review (cont.)
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Lecture 5: Thermal parameters + conservation equations
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Lecture 6: PWR and BWR description
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Lecture 7: Other reactor designs (heavy water, gas, liquid metal)
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Lecture 8: Thermal analysis of fuel elements (introduction to fuels and heat conduction equation)
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Lecture 9: Thermal analysis of fuel elements (temperature distributions + core max temperature)
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Lecture 10: Ideal gas and incompressible fluid models + single-phase coolant flow (pressure drop and natural circulation)
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Lecture 11: Single-phase coolant heat transfer (correlations + heat exchangers)
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Lecture 13: Pure substance model two-phase coolant flow (parameters)
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Lecture 14: Two-phase coolant flow and heat transfer (pressure drop + boiling)
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Lecture 15: Two-phase coolant heat transfer (boiling crises + demos)
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Lecture 16: Power cycles (Rankine)
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Lecture 17: Power cycles (Brayton)
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Lecture 18: Nuclear safety (pillars + thermal limits + protection system + ECCS + severe accidents + containment)
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Lecture 19: Structural mechanics (elasticity fundamentals + thin-shell theory)
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Lecture 20: Structural mechanics (stress limits)
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Jacopo Buongiorno, 22.06 Engineering of Nuclear Systems, Fall 2010.
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