ENGY.5120 Nuclear Materials (Last Term 2004 Spring)(Formerly 24.522)
Id: 004070
Credits: 3-3
Description
Materials in sustainable nuclear energy applications including fission energy, fusion energy, accelerators, and medicine. Review of fundamentals of materials science, radiation physics, nuclear reactions, radioactivity, and ionizing radiation. Study of fundamental phenomena related to radiation-interactions with matter, and radiation damage in structural materials including ion-solid interactions, atomic displacement, defect kinetics, and microstructural changes under irradiation. A final project is required for the course.
Prerequisites
Pre-Req: MATH 2360 Eng Differential Equations or MATH.2340 Differential Equations.
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