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Lecturer(s)
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Peltan Tomáš, Ing. Ph.D.
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Ullmann Jan, 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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Mašata David, Ing. Ph.D.
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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 - GEN IV reactors and SMRs. 2. Nuclear reactor technology - nuclear power plants and nuclear reactors, nuclear power plant systems, the primary circuit of a nuclear power plant with a pressurized water reactor - components, operational properties, and characteristics. Other reactor types (BWR, PWR, GCR) - comparison and specific features. 3. NPP technology - the secondary and cooling circuits of a nuclear power plant with a pressurized water reactor - components and operational characteristics. Power plants with other reactor types (BWR, PWR, GCR) - comparison and specific features. 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. NPP instrumentation and control systems - control of technological processes in nuclear power plants, safety and operational systems, the main control room; instrumentation and control (I&C) systems and nuclear safety (redundancy, diversity, and separation), digital I&C systems. 7. Measurements in NPP - measurement of process parameters (temperature, pressure, flow rate, and level), measurement of chemical parameters, neutron flux measurement, diagnostic measurements; data processing and evaluation, and metrological assurance. 8. 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). 9. 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). 10. NPP Risk Management - identifying and assessing risks and monitoring, prevention and management during normal operation and emergency. 11. 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. 12. Nuclear accidents - introduction, INES scale, the most significant 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 |
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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. Praha: ČVUT, 2005.
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Školící odbor ČEZ. Učební texty pro přípravu personálu. Temelín: Jaderná elektrárna, 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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