Reactor physics
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Head of nuclear training reactor AKR-2
NameMr Dr.-Ing. und Dipl.-Phys. Carsten Lange
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Institute of Power Engineering - Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy
Institute of Power Engineering - Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy
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Walther-Pauer-Bau, PAU 214/2 George-Bähr-Straße 3b
01069 Dresden
Research Associate
NameMr Dr. rer. nat. Sergei Kobzak
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Research Associate
NameMr Dipl.-Phys. Alexander Knospe
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Institute of Power Engineering - Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy
Institute of Power Engineering - Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy
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01069 Dresden
Research Associate
NameMr Dipl.-Inf. Sascha Weichel
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Research Associate
NameMr Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Phys. Marco Viebach
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Institute of Power Engineering - Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy
Institute of Power Engineering - Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy
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01069 Dresden
The discipline "Reactor Dynamics" comprises the teaching areas reactor statics, reactor kinetics and the thermohydraulics of the reactor core.
At the professorship WKET, work on stability analysis of power reactors, in particular boiling water reactors, has been carried out for several years. In the past years, special knowledge on investigations of the dynamic behavior of complex technical systems including their modeling and on the methodology of BWR stability analysis has been developed at the TU Dresden.
Teaching and research in this field of work should enable graduates of nuclear engineering to understand the fundamentals of the design of stable reactor cores and the time behavior of power reactors, especially in disturbed operating conditions (transient analyses). In this context, the fundamentals for understanding the modern so-called system codes, which must be used in practice for safety analyses, are also taught. These codes have in some cases reached a level of complexity which in practice sometimes makes it considerably more difficult for graduates of nuclear engineering to access an understanding of the models, physical approximations and solution algorithms contained in the programs and can therefore impair the interpretation of the calculation results obtained with such codes. The work on reactor dynamics at the chair is accompanied by Dr. Hennig (with more than 30 years of experience in the field of reactor dynamics; formerly of PSI, Switzerland) as an external scientific advisor. Lecture and course are supported by computer simulations, i.e. time sequences are demonstrated during the lecture. During the exercises, "classical" exercise problems are solved as well as the handling of system codes is offered.
The teaching of reactor dynamics includes the following points:
- The teaching of the basic knowledge of reactor kinetics and thermohydraulics of the fission zone
- Feedback effects and (linear and nonlinear) stability analysis of nuclear reactors in the context of core design
International Network of Excellence: Reactor dynamics and Reactor safety
Student research projects
Current tasks of the Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy Technology can be found here.
Projects
Publications and patents
Cooperation partners of the research area "AKR-2" and "reactor dynamics"
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Das Jülicher Zentrum für Forschung mit Neutronen (JCNS), 52425 JÜLICH
JCNS
AREVA GmbH, Technisches Training Center Germany, Seligenstädter Straße 100, 63791 Karlstein am Main
AREVA Technisches Training Center
Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH, Schwertnergasse 1, 50667 Köln
GRS
Paul-Scherrer Institut, Neutron Optics and Scientific Computing Group, at Laboratory for Scientific Developments and Novel Materials , CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
PSI
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