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Course Description

EMCH 556 - Introduction to Risk Analysis and Reactor Safety

Class Session: Monday, January 13, 2025 - Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Credit: 3 semester hours of credit

Instructor: Travis Knight

Term: Spring 2025


Course Description

An introduction to probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) methods as applied to nuclear power plants but also examples from the chemical industry, aerospace, transportation, and other sectors. Addresses failure and reliability analysis, fault trees, event trees, reactor safety, regulatory practice. Prerequisite: C or better in CHEM 111, PHYS 211, MATH 241, MATH 242.FS: 06/02/2021.

College

EC - Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing

Level

Undergraduate

Section

J10

Instructional Method

DWEB
100% Web Asynchronous

CRN

53015

Restrictions

CAMPUSICOL - USC Columbia
LEVELEGR - Graduate
FOSALLI108A - Computer Science
FOSALLI125A - Computer Information Systems
FOSALLI451A - Chemical Engineering
FOSALLI452A - Electrical Engineering
FOSALLI454A - Mechanical Engineering
FOSALLI455A - Civil Engineering
FOSALLI456A - Computer Engineering
FOSALLI470A - Biomedical Engineering
FOSALLI477A - Aerospace Engineering
FOSALLI920A - Integrated Info Technology

Information is accurate as of December 6, 2024 (Subject to change)

Special Fee Notification

Students may be required to be proctored during online test completion. If students are unable to attend test proctoring sessions in person at the Distributed Learning office, additional fees may apply for online test proctoring if the course requires online testing.



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