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Lecturer(s)
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Mašata David, Ing.
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Piterka Luboš, Ing.
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Jiřičková Jana, Ing. Ph.D.
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Lovecký Martin, Doc. Ing. Ph.D.
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Škoda Radek, Prof. Ing. Ph.D.
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Závorka Jiří, Ing.
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Course content
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1. Nuclear energy in the Czech Republic and the world - power engineering and energy mix of the Czech Republic and the world, operated nuclear reactors and power plants, NPP Temelin and NPP Dukovany, a view into the future. 2. Nuclear power plant technologies - nuclear reactors and NPP, basic principles, cooling circuits of NPP with PWR and their main components - primary circuit, secondary circuit, cooling circuit. 3. Nuclear reactor technologies - types of operating nuclear reactors, differences, parameters. Operating characteristics and features, technology of commercial reactors, GEN IV reactors and SMRs. 4. Operation of the nuclear reactor - operating modes, reactor start-up and reaching criticality and start-up of other components, physical and power start-up tests, reactor operation, failure of the main circulation pump and turbine trip, reactor core behaviour during core burn-up, reactor shutdown. 5. Electrical part of NPP - nuclear power plant efficiency, NPP output power and self-consumption, nuclear unit power output, self-consumption power supply (main, reserve and emergency), uninterruptible power supply systems (categorisation and devices). 6. Measurements on NPP and I&C - instrumentation and control of NPP, main control room, I&C and nuclear safety (redundancy, diversion, physical separation), NPP measurements (thermo-technical, boric acid concentration, neutron flux measurement). 7. NPP operation economics - construction, operating and fuel costs, nuclear account, NPP decommissioning, final costs of electricity, financial aspects of the uranium fuel cycle (mining, uranium ore, enrichment, conversion, fabrication, costs associated with spent nuclear fuel - storage, reprocessing, disposal). 8. Introduction to nuclear safety and dosimetry - essential principles and safety criteria of nuclear facilities, physical barriers against radioactive material leakage, defence in depth, principles of radiation protection, dosimetry (ionising radiation, essential dosimetric units, detection of ionising radiation). 9. NPP Risk Management - identifying and assessing risks and monitoring, prevention and management during normal operation and emergency. 10. Probabilistic Safety Assessment - qualitative and quantitative methods and tools for determining the safety of NPP operation, deterministic and probabilistic safety assessment, fault tree analysis and event tree analysis. 11. Nuclear accidents - introduction, INES scale, the most significant nuclear accidents. 12. Nuclear accidents - lessons learned, impact on safety systems and operation of current reactors. 13. Measurements on the school reactor VR-1 The exercises complement and extend the topics covered in the lectures. Case studies based on known nuclear accidents are discussed. The activities include practical training on the school reactor VR-1.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Students' self-study, Self-study of literature, Lecture, Practicum
- Preparation for laboratory testing; outcome analysis (1-8)
- 8 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 40 hours per semester
- Practical training (number of hours)
- 26 hours per semester
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| describe basic terms connected to nuclear power plant parts |
| list and describe electrical parts of nuclear power plant |
| explain basic functions of electrical parts of nuclear power plant |
| perform reliability analysis - Risk Management, PSA Nuclear Power Plant |
| describe and analyze nuclear power plant systems |
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| to classify the importance of electrical parts of nuclear power plants |
| to link electrical and non-electrical parts of nuclear power plants |
| design and regulate electrical power from nuclear power plants |
| identify and name possible reasons of electrical fault in nuclear power plant |
| teaching methods |
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| Lecture |
| Practicum |
| Self-study of literature |
| Skills |
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| Practicum |
| Self-study of literature |
| assessment methods |
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| Combined exam |
| Skills |
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| Combined exam |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
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Recommended literature
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DOE Fundamentals Handbook, Nuclear Physics and Reactor Theory. Washington D.C.: U.S. Department of Energy, 1993.
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Bečvář, Josef. Jaderné elektrárny. Praha : SNTL, 1981.
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Heřmanský, Bedřich. Jaderné reaktory. Praha : SNTL, 1981.
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Ibler, Zbyněk. Provoz jaderných elektráren. 1. vyd. Plzeň : VŠSE, 1987.
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JEVREMOVIC, Tatjana. Nuclear Principles in Engineering. 2005.
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Marguet, Serge. The Physics of Nuclear Reactors. Springer, 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-59560-3.
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Matějka, K. a kol.:. Experimentální úlohy na školním reaktoru. ČVUT Praha, 2005.
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Školící odbor ČEZ. Učební texty pro přípravu personálu. Jaderná elektrárna Temelín, 2002.
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ZEMAN, Jaroslav. Reaktorová fyzika 1. ČVUT Praha, Fakulta jaderná a fyzikálně inţenýrská, 1989. ISBN 80-01-01933.
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