This is a required course for nuclear engineering and nuclear engineering science majors. This course consists of an introduction to radioactive decay, radiation interactions and transport, and detailed instruction in the use and application of advanced nuclear engineering computational tools culminating in the design of a nuclear engineering system. This course is designed to provide an introduction to the science and theory behind modeling nuclear phenomena along with practical exposure to industry- standard computational tools used to design reactors, radiation shields, detectors and other nuclear systems. Specific topics include: radiation interactions and the Boltzmann transport equation, theory of deterministic and Monte Carlo methods for radiation transport, radioactive decay, problem solving using deterministic and Monte Carlo computer simulations, design of nuclear engineering systems, and analysis and validation of computational results.
