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Principles of Nuclear Engineering

NE 231 (3)

Introduction to nuclear engineering and nuclear processes; neutron interactions with matter, cross sections, fission, neutron diffusion, criticality, kinetics, chain reactions, reactor principles, fusion and the nuclear fuel cycle. Includes open-ended exercises.

Prerequisite: CHEM 1215 and CHEM 1215L and MATH 1522.

Corequisite: 314.

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Prerequisites / Corequisites

Thermodynamics and Nuclear Systems - NE 314

General Chemistry I for STEM Majors - CHEM 1215

General Chemistry I for STEM Majors Laboratory - CHEM 1215L

Calculus II - MATH 1522

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