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2012-2013 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2012-2013 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

MNE 426 - Nuclear Power Engineering

3 credits
Prerequisites: MNE 220
Nuclear engineering as related to nuclear power plants. The course emphasizes the principles of thermodynamics and materials science applied to nuclear power plants. Additionally, the course introduces the fundamentals of the atom, table of the nuclides, radioactivity and shielding, health effects, nuclear reactor operation, the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear policies and nuclear safety.