Fission and Fusion Energy
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The official GTU curriculum for Fission and Fusion Energy (subject code ME02075031) as prescribed for M(E · Semester 2 divides the course into 4 units, covering 61 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (ME02075031)Unit 1 Nuclear Reactor and Nuclear Power
- Introduction to nuclear physics
- Neutron interaction
- attenuation and flux
- Energy loss in scattering collisions
- Fission chain reaction
- Nuclear reactor fuels
- Component of nuclear reactor
- Non-nuclear component of nuclear power plant
- Power reactor and nuclear steam supply systems
- Nuclear cycle
- Isotope separation
- Fuel reprocessing
- Radioactive waste disposal
- Fick’s law, Equation of continuity
- Diffusion equation
- Boundary condition and solution
- Heat generation in reactors
- Heat flow by conduction
- Heat transfer to coolant
- Boiling heat transfer
- Thermal design of reactor
Unit 2 Radiation Protection and Shielding
- Biological and quantitative effects of radiation
- Calculation of radiation effect
- Natural and Man-made radiation sources
- Standards of radiation protection Radiation Shielding: Introduction
- Nuclear reactor shielding: Principal of reactor shielding
- Reactor shield design: removal-attenuation calculations
- Removal – diffusion methods
- Exact methods
- Shielding γ – rays
Unit 3 Nuclear Fusion
- why fusion energy? Fusion reactions
- Coulomb’s law, Condition for fusion
- Lawson’s criteria
- Occurrence of plasma in nature
- Definition of plasma
- Plasma parameter
- criteria for plasma
- applications of plasma
- Laser induced fusion – uncompressed and compressed
- Problems with compressed fusion
- Magnetic confinement fusion
- Magnetic mirrors
- Toroidal machines 8
Unit 4 Single Particle Motions
- Uniform E and B fields
- Non- uniform B and E field
- Time - varying B and E Field
- Center drifts Plasmas as Fluid: Introduction
- Maxwell’s equations in vacuum and medium
- Momentum and Euler’s equation for plasma
- Fluid drift perpendicular and parallel to B, Drift velocity for D.C. and A
- Energy absorbed in lase induced fusion
- Energy rise of electron for D.C. and A.C. field Waves in Plasmas: Representation of waves
- Phase and group velocity
- Plasma Oscillations
- Electron plasma waves
- Sound waves
- Ion waves
- Comparison of Electron and Ion wave
- Electrostatic electron oscillation and ion wave
- Electromagnetic waves perpendicular and parallel to Bo, Hydromagnetic wave
- Magnetosonic wave 14
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