Characteristics and design of nuclear fuel, including safety margins

Training Modules 

1. Fuel cycles: from introductory concepts to fuel design Provides understanding of fuel cycle from the view point of fuel management (from fuel fabrication through transportation to waste disposal) .
2.  Reactor operation and control (VVER) Provides understanding of normal reactor operation and transients. 
3. Fuel burnup and economics Provides understanding of irradiation effects on NPP plants efficiency Economics of fuel cycle Provides understanding of the main financial needs to support life cycle of NPP focusing fuel management. 
4. Guidelines for quality and reliability assurance programmes Provides understanding of methods and procedures associated with quality and reliability assurance. 
5. Fuel behavior under irradiation Provides understanding of changing fuel properties under normal reactor operation and transients, essential degradation mechanisms capable to deteriorate properties which are relevant for NPP reliability and safety Fuel Quality and Reliability for Water Cooled Reactors. 
6. Quality Assurance and Quality Control Aspects Provides understanding of experimental methods an norms applied for fuel management along fuel cycle.
7.  Deterministic safety analysis.
        Part I: Methodology Provides understanding of radioactive source parameters, migration modeling and associated hazards. Deterministic safety analysis.      
       Part II: Practical examples Provides an experience with simulation of thermohydraulics parameters under normal and normal operation conditions. 
8.  Deterministic safety analysis. Part III- Russian computer codes Provides experience with simulation of accidents 
9.  Full-scale transients in VVER-type reactors. Based on RAINBOW code. Provides experience of source data preparation and transients calculation by RAINBOW code. 
10. Final test 100 h total (54 h of lectures + 46 h of hands-on sessions)