2024 Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Department of Chemical Science and Engineering Graduate major in Nuclear Engineering
Safety and Regional Symbiosis for Nuclear Energy
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Nuclear Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Hiroaki Tsutsui / Junichi Saito / Shinichiro Yamashita / Tomohiro Terunuma / Morihiro Mihara / Mikio Iwanaga / Yoshimi Kawamoto / Masayuki Kamaya / Osamu Kuwazuru / Naoki Matsuda
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- NCL.F454
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
[Outline]
This course covers the question of what process is followed when creating nuclear power plants in order to ensure their safety, and comprehensively covers design techniques and regulatory systems for nuclear power from a manufacturing viewpoint, making students to think about the future of nuclear power safety. Students will also think about how the society with nuclear power plants relate to nuclear power, how they have coexisted, the historical understanding, and future regional coexistence, offering as an example Fukui Prefecture, which has experienced injuries from a steam generator's heat transfer pipe, and a sodium leak accident. Students will also perform integrity tests and experiments for nuclear reactor, while also visiting nuclear power related facilities, learning about the response after the Fukushima plant accident and the current situation.
This 5-day intensive course is held in collaboration with Fukui University, Osaka University, etc. during summer vacation at Fukui University.
[Goals]
Students will gain an understanding of the total picture relating to the construction and operation of nuclear power plants. Students will also experience and learn the basics of experimental technology for nuclear power plants.
Course description and aims
A student will acquire a broad perspective in order to work in the nuclear power industry.
Keywords
Nuclear power plant, Safety, Regional symbiosis, Test of materials used for nuclear power plants
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
This 5-day intensive course is held at Fukui University during the summer break, in cooperation with Fukui University and Osaka University, etc.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Safety and future problems of nuclear power plants | Introduction to Nuclear System Safety |
| Class 2 | Safety and future problems of nuclear power plants | Basic Research of Light Water Reactor Safety |
| Class 3 | Nuclear fuel cycle / radioactive waste treatment | Introduction to the nuclear fuel cycle |
| Class 4 | Nuclear fuel cycle / radioactive waste treatment | Treatment and disposal of radioactive waste |
| Class 5 | Current status and future of Fukui's nuclear power and regional symbiosis | Facility outline explanation |
| Class 6 | Current status and future of Fukui's nuclear power and regional symbiosis | Facility tour |
| Class 7 | Current status and future of Fukui's nuclear power and regional symbiosis | Facility tour |
| Class 8 | Current status and future of Fukui's nuclear power and regional symbiosis | Regional symbiosis of nuclear power plants |
| Class 9 | Current status and future of Fukui's nuclear power and regional symbiosis | Thinking about regional symbiosis of nuclear power plants |
| Class 10 | Current status and future of Fukui's nuclear power and regional symbiosis | Free discussion of Regional symbiosis with nuclear power plants |
| Class 11 | Nuclear plant structural safety training | Structural soundness evaluation |
| Class 12 | Nuclear plant structural safety training | Structural soundness evaluation guidance |
| Class 13 | Nuclear plant structural safety training | Structural safety training (1) |
| Class 14 | Nuclear plant structural safety training | Structural safety training (2) |
| Class 15 | Nuclear plant structural safety training | Structural safety training (3) |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
None
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Textbooks are distributed for this course.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Reports
Related courses
- None
Prerequisites
None
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
Hiroaki TSUTSUI (htsutsui[at]zc.iir.titech.ac.jp)
Office hours
10:00-17:00
Prior appointment by e-mail is required.