Type: | Open University Language: English |
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Previous course: C4003
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No credit points with: C4003
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Compulsory: 10471/C4001
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Prerequisite: 10215/10061
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Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester
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Scope and form: See "Remarks"
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Examination: Evaluation of report(s) (Pass/fail)
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Participant limitation: min. 2 max. 16
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Remarks: One-day experiments alternating with report writing. The experiments take place at the DR 1 reactor at Risoe National Laboratory.
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Contact person: | Peter B. Fynbo, Forskningscenter Risų, tlf. 4677 4924, E-mail peter.fynbo@risoe.dk |
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Department: Department of Physics
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Aim: To give the student familiarity with nuclear reactor operation, with a series of measurement methods, and with the safety provisions at nuclear reactors.
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Contents: Reactor criticality, measurement of temperature and void coefficients, measurement of gamma spectra and identification of radioisotopes, health physics, measurement of neutron cross sections, measurement of flux distribution in the DR 1, neutron radiography.
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