2024 Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Graduate major in Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear Non-proliferation and Security
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Nuclear Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Hiroshi Sagara / Noriyosu Hayashizaki / Masato Hori / Hirofumi Tomikawa / Kosuke Tanabe
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Mon / 3-4 Thu
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- NCL.O401
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
About the nuclear security, history and legal framework, the characteristics of nuclear material and radioactive substances and graded approach for their regulation based on material attractiveness, physical protection system designing and evaluation, nuclear forensics, human factor and nuclear safety-security culture, cyber security are discussed.
About the nuclear nonproliferation, history and legal framework, criticality, significant quantity and conversion time of nuclear material, safeguards and its science and technology, nuclear material accounting and control, CTBT, proliferation resistance are systematically explained.
By role playing group working, students learn the way to consensus agreement between multiple stakes holders for active learning.
Course description and aims
Student gain the comprehensive view of nuclear non-proliferation and security from history, legal framework, safeguards and physical protection system, important science and technology.
Student learning outcomes
実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)
The international leading persons in nuclear safeguards will make lectures and exercises.
Keywords
Nuclear non-proliferation, Nuclear security, Safeguards, Nuclear material accounting and control, consensus agreement between multiple stakes holders, cyber security, active learning
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
lecture and group work
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Lecture overview: Nuclear Non-proliferation and security | Explaining nuclear non-proliferation and security and their overview |
| Class 2 | Safeguards (1): History and legal framework review | Explaining history and legal framework of non-proliferation |
| Class 3 | Safeguards (2): Overview of Safeguards | Explaining overview of Safeguards |
| Class 4 | Safeguards (3): Safeguards and its science and technology | Explaining Safeguards and its science and technology |
| Class 5 | Safeguards (4): Nuclear material accounting and control | Acquiring nuclear material accounting and control |
| Class 6 | Safeguards (5): Group work | With hypothetical fuel cycle information, role playing group work is performed for active learning. |
| Class 7 | Nuclear Disarmament: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and Monitoring Technology | Explaining Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and its Monitoring Technology |
| Class 8 | Nuclear Security (1): Introduction to nuclear security | Explaining history and legal framework of Nuclear Security |
| Class 9 | Nuclear Security (2): Protection of materials and Facilities | Explaining the basis of Physical Protection System Design and its methodology |
| Class 10 | Nuclear Security (3): Evaluation of Physical Protection Systems | Explaining how to evaluate physical protection system |
| Class 11 | Nuclear Security (4): Human factor, Cyber security | Understanding of how to evaluate Physical Explaining Human Factor in Nuclear Security, and Nuclear Safety-Security Culture |
| Class 12 | Nuclear Security (5): Group work | With hypothetical nuclear facility information, role playing group work is performed for active learning. |
| Class 13 | Nuclear Security (5): Materials out of regulatory control | Explaining measures for materials out of regulatory control including detection and nuclear forensics technologies |
| Class 14 | Nuclear Security (6):Radioactive isotope security, Overall discussion | Learning the security of radioactive isotopes. Overall discussion on the lecture |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
IAEA Nuclear Security Series No. 13 (INFCIRC/225/Revision 5)
IAEA Nuclear Security Series No. 21
IAEA INFCIRC/153 corrected
IAEA INFCIRC/540 corrected
IAEA Nuclear Security Series No. 13 (INFCIRC/225/Revision 5)
IAEA Nuclear Security Series No. 21
IAEA INFCIRC/153 corrected
IAEA INFCIRC/540 corrected
Reference books, course materials, etc.
The Evolution of IAEA Safeguards
https://www-pub.iaea.org/books/iaeabooks/5264/The-Evolution-of-IAEA-Safeguards
E-learning at IAEA
Evaluation methods and criteria
Report, examination
Related courses
- NCL.N407 ： Nuclear Safety Engineering
- NCL.N410 ： Nuclear Reactor Physics, Radiation Measurement and Nuclear Security Laboratory
Prerequisites
Students are desired to have completed courses of "Nuclear Safety Engineering", and "Nuclear Reactor Physics, Radiation Measurement and Nuclear Security Laboratory"
Other
This lecture is the compulsory subject to achieve the completion certificate issued by Advanced Nuclear 3S Education and Training(ANSET-CP) program.
5 lectures relating to nuclear security will be held on Aug. 7-8 as two-day intensive lecture.
http://www.zc.iir.titech.ac.jp/anset-cp