Announcements

• Offered January - February, 2008
• The 2006 version of this course is maintained for archival and reference purposes.
• Location:
  • The Durham College Skills Training Centre is located at 1610 Champlain Avenue, Whitby, Ontario. See Campus Maps.
• Session schedule:
  • Saturday, January 5   from 0900 hours -1600 hours
  • Sunday, January 6 from 1400 hours -1800 hours
  • Saturday, January 19   from 0900 hours -1600 hours
  • Sunday, January 20   from 1400 hours -1800 hours
  • Saturday, February 9 from 0900 hours -1600 hours
  • Sunday, February 10 from 1400 hours -1800 hours
  • Saturday, February 23 from 0900 hours -1600 hours
  • Sunday, February 24 from 1400 hours -1800 hours
• Instructor: Victor Snell.

Course description:

Nuclear reactor safety design and analysis principles and practice. Probability theory, failure rates, availability, reliability, test frequencies, dormant and active systems, and probability evaluation for simple systems. Historical and philosophical basis for nuclear safety, safety criteria, initiating events, fault trees and event trees, safety analysis.

Course Notes:

• Course Outline (including Forward, Acknowledgements, and Expectations)
  • Lecture notes (pdf 116kb)
  • Presentation (pdf 203kb)
• Chapter 1 - Introduction
  • Lecture notes (pdf 311kb)
• Chapter 2 - Design Basis Accidents
  • Lecture notes (pdf 1.6Mb)
• Chapter 3 - Case Studies
  • Lecture notes (pdf 550kb)
• Chapter 4 - Probability Tools and Techniques
  • Lecture notes (pdf 445kb)
• Chapter 5 - Safety Systems
  • Lecture notes (pdf 1.0Mb)
• Chapter 6 - Safety Goals
• Lecture notes (pdf 128kb)
• Chapter 7 - Accident Analysis
  • Lecture notes (pdf 240kb)
• Chapter 8 - Technology of Accident Analysis
  • Lecture notes (pdf 1.35Mb)
• Chapter 9 - Whither Safety
  • Lecture notes (pdf 948kb) - IAEA
  • Lecture notes (pdf 2.25Mb) - Passive Designs
• The rest is to come. See the previous offering for past course notes till then. The revised notes will be similar.