Announcements

• This offering of the course is now over. This page is maintained for archival purposes.
• First lecture: Saturday, January 29, 2005, 9:00AM at the Skills Training Centre in the Lecture Theatre. Classroom 1-2.
• The Skills Training Centre is located at 1610 Champlain Avenue, Whitby, Ontario. See Durham College map and driving directions . The Skills Training Centre is identified as (3) on the map. See the first floor building layout (pdf 198kb).
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Course Description:

A nuclear reactor presents a unique environment in which materials must perform. In addition to the high temperatures and stresses to which materials are subjected in conventional applications, nuclear materials are subjected to various kinds of radiation which affect their performance, and often this dictates a requirement for a unique property (for example, a low cross section for thermal neutron absorption) that is not relevant in conventional applications. The effects of the radiation may be direct (e.g., the displacement of atoms from their normal positions by fast neutrons or fission fragments), or indirect (e.g., a more aggressive chemical environment caused by radiolytic decomposition). This course describes materials typically used in nuclear environments, the unique conditions to which they are subjected, the basic physical phenomena that affect their performance and the resulting design criteria for reactor components made from these materials.

Prerequisite: Registration in the UNENE Joint M. Eng. Program
Lecturer: Rick Holt, contact information

Course Schedule

• Class will start at 9:00 AM on day 1, and 8:00 AM on day 2 of each 2 day session
• Saturday, January 29 / Sunday, January 30
• Friday, February 11 / Saturday, February 12
• Saturday, February 26 /Sunday, February 27
• Saturday, March 12 / Sunday, March 13
• There will be seven hours of lectures each two day session, four hours on the first day and three on the second, with time between lectures to look over the notes and ask questions.
• There will four take-home assignments
• There will be a final exam about two weeks after the last session.
• 50-60% of the mark will be based on the assignments and 40-50% on the final (yet to be decided). I will try to arrange that the final exam can be written in several places so that no-one has to travel too far.
• Details (xls 20kb)

Course Notes

• [These course notes are password protected. You will need to register in the course and contact the instructor to receive the password.]
• Lecture 1 Introduction (pdf 1.9Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 2 Crystallography-and-Point-Defects (pdf 1.5Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 3 Dislocations and Boundaries (pdf 3.3Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 4 Plastic Instability and Fracture (pdf 2.6Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 5 Texture and Plastic Anisotropy (pdf 1.1Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 6 Creep and Fatigue (pdf 3.8Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 7 Residual Stress (pdf 2.5Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 8 Physics of Nuclear Reactors (pdf 1.2Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 9 Power Reactor Design 1.2(pdf Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 10 Radiation Effects (pdf 3.7Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 11 Evolution of Microstructure and Microchemistry (pdf 4.6Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 12a Irradiation Induced Deformation 1 (pdf 4.8Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 12b Irradiation Induced Deformation 2 (pdf 2.8Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 13 Fuel Channel Technology (pdf 1.7Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 14 Metallurgy of Pressure Tubes and Calandria Tubes (pdf 6.7Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 15 Microstructure of Pressure Tubes (pdf 3.7Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 16 Deformation of Pressure Tubes (pdf 4.4Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 17 Modelling of Pressure Tube Deformation (pdf 0.7Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 18 Corrosion and D Ingress (pdf 0.4Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 19 Delayed Hydride Cracking and Fracture (pdf 5.0Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 20 Calandria Tubes (pdf 4.1Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 21 - Fuel design Manufacturing and Testing (pdf 2.6Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 22 - Fuel Operation (pdf 2.2Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 23 - Fuel Performance (pdf 3.2Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 24 - Steam Generator Design and Degradation Mechanisms (pdf 1.2Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 25 - Mitigation of Steam Generator Degradation (pdf 1.0Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 26 - CANDU Feeders (pdf 1.1Mb) [password protected]
• Lecture 27 - Post-Service Examination of Radioactive Components (pdf 3.3Mb) [password protected]
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Class Recordings

[These recordings of the actual class are password protected. You will need to register in the course and contact the instructor to receive the password.]