JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Overview

Course objective: to prepare students to

• understand the generation of nuclear power
• understand the concepts of pollution/pollutants and how to protect it from the environment.

Course Outcomes

Student will be able to

• Have knowledge of continual degradation of environment.
• Have an exposure to different types of pollutions control methods.

UNIT - I

NUCLEAR FUEL AND REACTOR THEORY: Nuclear fuels-occurrence and extraction, fissile characteristics, enrichment, fission process - thermal and fast fission - energy released from fission - chain reaction - reaction control. Neutron balance - fast fission - resonance capture – thermalization - geometric effects - burn-up – introduction to reactor kinetics.

UNIT - II

REACTOR COMPONENTS: General components of nuclear reactor - Fuel cladding - fuel assembly – moderators – coolants - control rods - Reactor safety - Neutron Population growth - assurance of safety - emergency core cooling and containment.

UNIT - III

REACTOR TYPES: Different types of reactors - Pressurized Water Reactor - Boiling Water Reactor - Heavy Water-cooled Reactor -Gas cooled Reactor - Liquid metal cooled reactor - Organic moderated and cooled reactors - Fast Breeder Reactors – Fifth generation reactors.

UNIT - IV

RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT: The nuclear fuel cycle - Waste classification - Spent fuel storage – Transportation – Reprocessing - High-Level waste disposal - low-level waste generation and treatment - Low-level waste disposal - Nuclear power plant decommissioning.

UNIT - V

NUCLEAR POWER FOR PROPULSION AND ENERGY ECONOMICS: Reactors for naval propulsion - Space reactors - Space isotopic power generator - Energy economics -Components of electrical power – Cost forecast versus Reality - Challenges and opportunities - Technical and institutional improvements – Developments in nuclear reactor.

TEXT BOOK:

• 1. Principle of Energy Conversion, Archie W.Culp, McGraw Hill, Kogakusha Ltd., 1984.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Nuclear Power Technology, W. Marshall, Vol. I &II, Clarendon press, Oxford, 1985.
• 2. Principle of Nuclear Reactor Engineering, Samual Glasstone, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. Inc., New York, 1963.
• 3. A course in Power Plant Engineering, Arora and Domkundwar, Dhanpat Rai.
• 4. Power Plant Technology, El Wakil/ Mc Graw Hill.
• 5. Power Plant Engineering, G.R. Nagpal/Khanna Publishers.
• 6. Power Plant Technology, Rajput.
• 7. NPTEL online course, Energy Resouces and Technology, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB8D62518BDBD6B9C R19 M.TECH M. TECH. PEES M. TECH. I Year II Sem. (PEES)