Nuclear Plant Safety
MIT’s longest running summer program has been revamped into an intensive one-week course that focuses on new developments in safety and regulatory issues of operating and planned reactors in the US and abroard.
- 22-26 June 2009
- Tuition: $2650 (See below for group rate and other reduced rate options)
- Instructors: M.S. Kazimi and N.E. Todreas
- Course Syllabus (2009)
Topics include:
- Power uprates
- Risk-informed operations
- Causes of plant outages
- High performance fuel
- Waste management
- Advanced Reactors
This course is intended for degree-holding engineers and scientists with some knowledge of nuclear facility technology, who are or will be participating in the design, construction, operation, or regulatory safety review of large nuclear installations. It will be of particular interest to technically-trained representatives of the electrical power utility industry, Department of Energy facilities, reactor or reactor component fabricators, safety evaluators, and other personnel interested in obtaining an overall view of reactor safety.
The instructors are among the most knowledgeable experts in nuclear technology, and are closely associated with current reactor and/or fuel facility safety issues. They are prominent authorities from industry, government and universities, and can provide authoritative answers in their technical fields. Lecturers will provide their own viewpoints and will not necessarily present the official views of any group with which they may be associated.
The course is held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT is a leader in education and research in all aspects of nuclear engineering. Program capacity is limited.
A review of recent developments focusing on safety issues in the near-term deployment of new plants, the Generation-IV nuclear systems program, and the advanced fuel cycle initiative will be among the topics of discussion. A panel discussion will close each day.
