Engineering Physics 4D03/6D03 Nuclear Reactor Analysis (Reactor Physics) Term I, 2017-2018 Administrative Details

Instructor Hello! My name is Ben Rouben. I am the instructor for this course. I worked in reactor physics at AECL from 1975 to 2007. I was Manager of the Reactor Core Physics Branch, 1993-2005. Right now I am Reactor-Physics Consultant and Adjunct Professor at McMaster and at UOIT.

E-mail Addresses To communicate with me, you may use either e-mail address below: roubenb@mcmaster.ca roubenb@alum.mit.edu TA: Remon Ibrahim, ibrahr5@mcmaster.ca

Course Webpage The department webpage for 4D03 is http://engphys.mcmaster.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/EP4D03_6D03_Course-Outline-2.pdf. The course webpage is http://www.nuceng.ca/br_space/2017-09_4d03_6d03/ep_d03_home.htm

Objectives of Course Objectives of course: To aid the student in understanding modern nuclear engineering; to develop skills for analysing neutron characteristics of fission reactors. Goals: to understand the physical processes to understand and be able to formulate the basic descriptive equations to solve those equations to simulate a reactor/source configuration with appropriate models depending on energy, position, steady state or transient situations, and material properties.

Course Material Reference Material: 1) Primary reference text: Nuclear Reactor Analysis, by James J. Duderstadt & Louis J. Hamilton, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN: 0-471-22363-8 2) My notes – issued as we proceed 3) Other reactor-physics textbooks, e.g. (among others), John R. Lamarsh & Anthony J. Baratta, Introduction to Nuclear Engineering, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-20182-498-1

Schedule Lectures are on Wednesdays, 11:30 am - 2:20 pm Room: ETB-119 First class will be on Wednesday Sept. 6 I am tentatively scheduling the mid-term examination for Wednesday Oct. 25. Final examination date not yet known, will be available in the official exam schedule, when it is issued. My office hours: Wednesdays 2:30 pm-3:30 pm, NRB-B121 (please request meeting), or at any time by e-mail

Overall marks for the course: Weekly Assignments: 20% Mid-term Examination: 30% Final Written Examination: 50% 6D03 students will have to do an extra assignment, worth 20%. Note: A passing mark in the final exam will be required in order to pass the course.

Marks (cont’d) Note: Weekly Assignments must be handed in promptly on time, every week! To be handed electronically to Remon latest by Wednesday 11:00 am week following. Week 1 is Wednesday Sept. 6, so week-1 assignment is due Wednesday Sept. 13 at 11:00 am latest. Etc.

Mid-Term & Final Mid-term: Final: Nominally 2 hours Closed book, but 1 single-sided 8.5”x11” crib sheet may be allowed. Final: 3 hours Closed book, but 2 single-sided 8.5”x11” crib sheets may be allowed .

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