An integrated theoretical-computational approach to nuclear engineering education
Explore our specialized courses taught by Prof. Radaideh that combine theoretical foundations with practical computational skills.
Nuclear Power Reactors
Analysis of nuclear fission power systems including an introduction to nuclear reactor design, reactivity control, reactivity feedback, fuel cycle analysis and fuel management, light water reactor analysis, advanced reactors, and the use of modeling and simulation codes to analyze reactor systems.
This course is designed to enrich your knowledge and expertise in four major aspects: (1) learning about nuclear power reactors, both light water and advanced reactors, (2) learning how to use computer codes to simulate reactor systems, and (3) learning fundamentals of reactor designs and cost analysis for nuclear reactor systems.
The integrated teaching style in this course highlights going over the theory of reactor analysis of lattice physics codes, nodal core simulators, Monte Carlo codes, and reactor kinetics and dynamics where students are then asked to model light water reactor and advanced reactor systems using CASMO4/SIMULATE3 and OpenMC, respectively.
“The 50/50 integrated theoretical-computational program at University of Michigan’
