Environmental and Nuclear waste science

Lecturers : Dr A Faanhof and Dr W Meyer : NECSA

Course Outline

• In restricted Area

Lectures (Notes in the restricted area)

• Part I Environmental Science & Nuclear Waste
  • Theme ES&NW 01 Basic Theory on Radioactivity 1 credit (10 study hours) Environmental Radioanalysis 1 credit (10 study hours)
  • Theme ES&NW 02 Environmental Radioanalysis 1 credit (10 study hours)
    • Natural radioactivity and world distribution
    • Mining, radioactive tailings and mine dumps
  • Theme ES&NW 03 Environmental Monitoring 2 credits (20 study hours)
    • Environmental assessments
    • Regulatory and legal frameworks
  • Theme ES&NW 04 Nuclear Waste (I) 1 credit (10 study hours)
    • Radioactive waste types and classification (fission products, actinides, LA, MA HA, etc.)
    • Radioactivity release mechanisms and transport into the environment Nuclear Waste (II) 2 credits (20 study hours)
  • Theme ES&NW 05 Nuclear Waste (II) 2 credits (20 study hours)
    • Waste confinement criteria and technologies, waste heat considerations
    • Waste reprocessing
  • Theme ES&NW 06 Commissioning and decommissioning 1 credit (10 study hours)
    • Nuclear reactor and plant Commissioning and decommissioning
• Part II
  • Books (Available to Registered Students)
    • New Developments in Glassy Nuclear Wasteforms, M.I. Ojovan and W.E. Lee, Nova Science Publishers 2007
    • Near-Field Assessment of Waste Forms for Low and medium Level Radio Active Waste - Proc of NEA Workshop Paris 1988
    • Hazardous and Radioactive Waste Treatment Technologies Handbook - Ed Chang Ho Oh, CRC Press, Washington
  • Nuclear Reactor Commisioning and Decommisioning
  • Radioactive Release and Transport

Tutorials

• Tutorial 1
• Tutorial 2
• Tutorial 3

Projects

• Project 1