144 / FIELDS OF INSTRUCTION Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences (see the Health Physics and Medical Physics description under Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies). Specific areas of emphasis include advanced and space nuclear power concept and systems, space nuclear propu I- sion, nuclear reactor power plant technology and opera- tions, reactor dynamics and control, environmental aspects of nuclear power generation, mobile robotics for hazardous environments, nuclear waste management, reactor phys- ics, nondestructive evaluation of structures and materials, radiographic imaging technique development, nuclear de- tection and instrumentation, bionucleonics, radiation do- simetry, medical diagnostic imaging, medical radiation physics, radiation biology, and health physics. The requirement for admission to the graduate program in nuclear engineering sciences is a bachelor's degree in an approved program in engineering or in the sciences. If the student's background is considered deficientfor the planned course of study, an articulation program of background courses will be required. Depending on professional objectives, the student may omit the master's thesis and substitute eight credits of graduate-level course work, of which at least six credits are in nuclear engineering sciences, including a four-credit (minimum) special project (ENU 6936). In such cases the completion of 32 credits will meet the minimum require- ments for the nonthesis degree. It normally requires 12 months to complete the require- ments for a master's degree. Students in the medical physics option usually take 21 to 24 months to complete the master's degree. If articulation work is required, it may take longer, depending upon the extent of the student's defi- ciency. In addition to graduate courses in nuclear engineering, the following courses are acceptable for in-department graduate credit as part of the health physics option: ENV 6215-Health Physics; ENV 6215L-Health Physics Labo- ratory; ENV 6216-Radioactive Wastes; ENV 6236-Ra- diological Techniques: ENV 6932-Special Problems in Environmental Engineering; and STA 6166-Statistical Methods in Research. The medical physics option includes the following courses for in-department graduate credit: ENV6215-Health Physics and STA6166-Statisical Meth- ods in Research. EML 5124-Two-Phase Flow and Boiling Heat Transfer (3) Prereq: introductory level fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Basic principles, mathematical modeling and applications of two-phase flow, boiling heat transfer, and evaporation and condensation. ENU 5005-Fundamentals of Reactor Engineering (3) Funda- mentals of reactor physics and power generation in nuclear reactors. Introduction to LWR systems, fuel, instrumentation, operation, licensing and safety. ENU 5143-Chemical Technology of Power Reactors (2) Prereq: course in reactor physics. Water coolant technology applied to nuclear power plants. Presents the supporting scientific and engineering information to understand the current literature and operating practice in the field. ENU 5146-Fundamentals of Reactor Safety; Operational Tran- sients and Accident Analysis (3) Prereq: ENU 4144, 4612. Iden- tification and analysis of courses and proposed solutions to off- normal nuclear reactor operating events. Impact on plant safety, reliability and/or availability. ENU 5176-Principlesof Nuclear Reactor Operations (3) Prereq: ENU 4144. Principles of control and operation and problems of power reactor operations. ENU 5176L-Principles of Nuclear Reactor Operations Labora- tory (1) Prereq: ENU 4144 orequivalentand consentofinstructor. Principles of reactor operations applied to startup, operation, and control of the training reactor to include performing reactor physics measurements and control calibrations. ENU 5180C-Nuclear Fuel Cycle (3) Prereq: ENU 4101 or4103 or 5005. Sources of uranium, mining and milling operations, purification, isotopic enrichment, and fuel fabrication. Radio- chemical properties of irradiated fuel, reprocessing, and waste disposal. ENU 5186-Reactor Fuel Cycles (3) Prereq: ENU 4185. Evalu- ation of criticality, power peaking, and sharing throughout the burnup cycle, with reshuffle and reload. Investigation of the effects of control poisons for thorium, uranium, and plutonium cycles. ENU 5196-Nuclear Reactor Power Plant System Dynamics and Control (3) Prereq: ENU 4192 and EML 4522 or EEL 4657 or EML 5311. Control theory analysis applied to nuclear power reactor dynamic models with feedback and to integrated nuclear power plant dynamic models with feedback. ENU 5306C-Radioisotope Theory and Techniques (4) Prereq: CHM 3120C or consent of instructor. The theory of radioactivity, of interaction with matter, radioactivity decay given in sufficient detail to make the laboratory techniques and practices thoroughly understood. ENU 5351-Introduction to Space Nuclear Power (3) Prereq: ENU 4144 and4134. Theory and design of space nuclear power sources including radioisotope thermoelectric generators and reactor power plants. Associated systems and components impor- tant for energy conversion, heat transport and rejection, shielding and safety. ENU 5414-Isotope Separation (3) Stable isotopes important for conventional nuclear reactors, isotopes important for fusion, methods for separation. ENU 5516L-Nuclear Engineering Laboratory 11 (3) Prereq: ENU 4612L or 5615L and ENU 4104 or 6106. Laboratory practice in neutron and gamma detection and analysis. Determination of basic neutron parameters in nonmultiplying and multiplying media. ENU 5615-Nuclear Radiation Detection and Instrumentation (3) Interaction of radiation with matter, radiation detector systems, pulse shaping, amplification, amplitude and time-analyzing cir- cuitry; counting and measuring devices, and control systems for nuclear reactors. ENU 5615L-Nuclear Radiation Detection and Instrumentation Laboratory (1) Laboratory associated with ENU 5615. ENU 5626-Radiation Biology (3) Prereq: one year each of college biology, chemistry and physics; permission of instructor. Effects of radiation on biological molecules, cells, and man including cancer and mutagenesis; use of radiation in the treat- ment of disease. ENU 5658-Image Analysis with Medical Physics Applications (3) Description and processing of images obtained using X-ray/ neutron fields. Filtering, enhancement, reconstruction of CT and coded aperature images. Digital and optical methods. ENU 5705-Advanced Concepts for Nuclear Energy (3) Prereq: ENU 4104, 4144 and EML 3100. Plasmas and thermonuclear fusion; fast reactors, advanced LWRs, and other advanced fission reactors; nuclear pumped lasers; TE, TI, and MHD conversion and Stirling engines as applied to advanced reactor concepts. ENU 6051-Radiation Interaction Basics and Applications I (3) Interaction of X-rays, gamma rays, neutrons, and charged particles with matter; radioactive decay, nuclear moments, and nuclear transitions. Application to basic problems in nuclear engineering sciences. ENU 6052-Radiation Transport Basics and Applications (3) Prereq: undergraduate classical and modern physics, and differ- ential equations. Particle distribution functions. Elementary trans- port and statistical description of particulate matter. Development of transport relations and their solutions. Applications to basic problems in nuclear engineering sciences. ENU 6053-Radiation Interaction Basics and Applications II (3) Continuation of ENU 6051. Nuclear Structure, stability and models; nuclear reactions; ionization of matter by charged par- ticles, neutrons, and electromagnetic radiation with application to basic problems in nuclear engineering sciences. ENU 6061-Introduction to Medical Radiological Physics (1)