NucE 597G Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Course
Description
The Department of Mechanical and
Nuclear Engineering will be presenting a distance course on the Nuclear Fuel
Cycle and the concepts of Safety, Security and Safeguards emphasizing the
international safeguards aspects of handling nuclear materials. Dr. Brian
Boyer of Los Alamos National Laboratory will be the instructor. Dr. Boyer is
the Nonproliferation Analysis Team Leader and the Project Leader for
International Safeguards at Los Alamos. For 14 years he worked in the
nonproliferation field at the IAEA, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the
last 4.5 years at Los Alamos. While at the IAEA from 1997 to 2002 he was a
nuclear safeguards inspector who traveled around Europe to various types of
nuclear facilities. After returning to the USA, he continued to work in
safeguards doing system analysis of various nuclear facilities including the
Chernobyl 4 Shelter, gas centrifuge enrichment plants, uranium conversion
facilities, and advanced reactors. Dr. Boyer brings an understanding of the
nonproliferation issues of the day from his own field experience and
analytical work.
The course will cover the various
technical components of the nuclear fuel cycle, in conjunction with relevant
nonproliferation and safeguards considerations as well as the safety and
security aspects. The students will see the nuclear fuel cycle from the
“womb to the tomb” and also study the policy aspects of the nuclear fuel
cycle including “Atoms for Peace”, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the
evolution of IAEA safeguards, the ramification of the weaponization of the
fuel cycle, and case studies of proliferation events.
This course include a project
that requires students to download and run a Simulation Program on their
computers. The Simulation Program is an .EXE and requires access to the
internet for transmitting output data. The Simulation Program is available
for both Windows OS and and Mac OS computers.
For more details
see the Course Syllabus.
Current Course
Offering Schedule via C&DE
(This course has Limited Enrollment) Please inquire
at the C&DE office about registration availability.
Semester:
Spring
2013
Day and Time:
NA - Online
Location: NA -
Online
Start Date:
January 7, 2013
End Date: May
3, 2013
Course Instructor:
Dr.
Brian D. Boyer
Contact information: TBA
Phone:
Fax:
E-Mail:
Webpage:
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/May-4-Boyer
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-boyer/14/974/63B
