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Course Outline

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Syllabus
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Date
Material covered
Reading/HW
1
8/22/19
 Introduction/Overview/Thinking like a neutron
Knief Chapter 1
2
8/29/19
MAGICMERV
Knief Chapter 2
LA-1
HW#0
3
9/5/19
Hand calculations
Knief Chapter 8
Appendices. B
4
9/12/19

Calculational methods: Theory

Knief Chapter 6
HW#1
HW#2
5
9/19/19
ANS standards
Knief Chapter 4
9/26/19

Test#1

 

6
10/3/19
SCALE basics
SCALE parametric studies
7
10/10/19
Validation
Knief Chapter 6 (pp. 57-58)
10/17/19
--Fall Break--
10/24/19
--Class cancelled for Engineers' Day--

(Optional preview of Halloween lecture)
8
10/31/19
Contingency analysis
Final project assignments
9
11/7/19
Structure of NCSEs
Assignment of accidents
Knief Chapter 10
DOE-STD-3007-2007
Sample NCSE
11/14/19

Special topics

 

10
11/21/19
Historical accident presentations
Test#2 due 11/18/19
(Monday midnight BEFORE class)
Knief Chapter 10
11/28/19
--Thanksgiving vacation--

 

 

12/12/19
Final project due
by 11:59:59 p.m.
 





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