NUCLEAR MATERIALS LABORATORY

NE 545

Overview of materials (cladding and structural materials) used in advanced reactor systems and the associated degradation. Interactions between the advanced nuclear reactor environment and materials. Surface degradation, corrosion, oxidation, dissolution, vaporization, mass transfer, diffusion, and hands-on examples related to advanced reactors.

NE 541

A survey of the nature of point defects, how these defects are produced, how the defects migrate and cluster, and what effects point defects and defect clusters have on the physical and mechanical properties of metals.

MS&E/NE 423

Fundamentals of fuel and cladding behavior in terms of thermal properties, chemical behavior and radiation damage.

NE 428

Experiments on reactor operation, flux measurement, measurements of reactor parameters, using pool type reactor.

NE 427

Experiments on nuclear instrumentation, counting, data analysis.