Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards - ENGG9744

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

School: School of Electrical Eng and Telecommunications

Course Outline: http://www.eet.unsw.edu.au

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

This course will introduce the current state-of-play with regards to nuclear licensing and global policies and their impacts on non-proliferation. It will describe the need for regulatory principles in the nuclear sector and will review international policies, regulations and authorities. Students will learn from practitioners at ANSTO on how a licensed site is operated, the safety culture in place, and risk management strategies in use in all areas of operations. The course will cover standards and regulatory frameworks, the assessment and management of risk, radiological safety and protection, the overlap between safety, security and safeguards, and will use case studies to demonstrate the principles.

The prerequisites for this course are ENGG9741 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and ENGG9742 Reactor Physics for Engineers. They are prerequisites as both courses identify and detail the primary mechanisms occuring in reactors hence the safety requirements of nuclear systems and the risk analysis that needs to take place in assessing safety and licencing cases.