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Nuclear Engineering Question Bank..1. What is reprocessing Nuclear reprocessing technology was developed to chemically separate and recover fissionable plutonium from irradiated nuclear fuel. Reprocessing serves multiple purposes, whose relative importance has changed over time. Originally reprocessing was used solely to extract plutonium for producing nuclear weapons. With the commercialization of nuclear power, the reprocessed plutonium was recycled back into MOX nuclear fuel for thermal reactors.[2] The reprocessed uranium, which constitutes the bulk of the spent fuel material, can in principle also be re-used as fuel. 2. Role of solvent extraction in reprocessing nuclear technology are briefly reviewed. Aplications of solvent extraction in actinide recovery and purification, radionuclide production, and reactor materials preparation are sumarized. The ned for new, more selective, solvent extraction reagents is presented via examples of recent work with bifunctional organophosphorus reagents..nuclear reactors A nuclear reactor is a device to initiate and control a sustained nuclear chain reaction. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear power plantsfor electricity generation and in propulsion of ships. Heat from nuclear fission is passed to a working fluid (water or gas), which runs through turbines. These either drive a ship's propellers or turn electrical generators. Nuclear generated steam in principle can be used for industrial process heat or for district heating. Some reactors are used to produce isotopes for medical and industrial use, or for production of plutonium for weapons. Some are run only for research. Today there are about 450 nuclear power reactors that are used to generate electricity in about 30 countries around the world.

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Nuclear Engineering Question Bank

Nuclear Engineering Question Bank..1. What is reprocessing Nuclear reprocessing technology was developed to chemically separate and recover fissionable plutonium from irradiated nuclear fuel. Reprocessing serves multiple purposes, whose relative importance has changed over time. Originally reprocessing was used solely to extract plutonium for producing nuclear weapons. With the commercialization of nuclear power, the reprocessed plutonium was recycled back into MOX nuclear fuel for thermal reactors.[2] The reprocessed uranium, which constitutes the bulk of the spent fuel material, can in principle also be re-used as fuel. 2. Role of solvent extraction in reprocessing nuclear technology are briefly reviewed. Aplications of solvent extraction in actinide recovery and purification, radionuclide production, and reactor materials preparation are sumarized. The ned for new, more selective, solvent extraction reagents is presented via examples of recent work with bifunctional organophosphorus reagents..nuclear reactors A nuclear reactor is a device to initiate and control a sustained nuclear chain reaction. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear power plantsfor electricity generation and in propulsion of ships. Heat from nuclear fission is passed to a working fluid (water or gas), which runs through turbines. These either drive a ship's propellers or turn electrical generators. Nuclear generated steam in principle can be used for industrial process heat or for district heating. Some reactors are used to produce isotopes for medical and industrial use, or for production of plutonium for weapons. Some are run only for research. Today there are about 450 nuclear power reactors that are used to generate electricity in about 30 countries around the world.

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Department of mechanical engineering

Nuclear Engineering
Question Bank
Unit 1
2 marks
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What is nuclear engineering?


What are advantages of nuclear engineering?
What is mean by nuclear model?
Define radio activity
Explain energy binding in nuclear
Define nuclear models.
Define energy.

16 marks
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Discuss and detail about Nuclear models of an atoms


Mass defect and mass less particles
Radio activity decay and types of decay
Nuclear cross section and macroscopic cross section
Explain in detail about Binding energy system and examples.
Define fast moving objects and system objects.
a). Explain
i.
Rutherford model
ii. Atomic numbers
b). Objectives of nuclear Engineering.

Unit 2
2 marks
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Define fission.
Define fusion.
Define Nuclear fuel cycles
Define chain reactions.
Necessary for uranium purification.
Characteristics of Nuclear fuel cycles.

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Elaborate Uranium productions and purifications


Define Courtesy of the uranium information center.
Explain Refining and converting of U3O8 UF6
What is meant by Fission bombs Explain in detail?
Define Nuclear chain reaction
a). Fission reactors
b). nuclear fission.
Explain the procedures of production of nuclear metal.

Unit 3
2 marks
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Define purification of Uranium, thorium.


Define purification Zirconium, beryllium
what is reprocessing
what is nuclear fuel cycles
Role of solvent extraction in reprocessing
What is the solvent extraction equipment?

16 marks
1. Nuclear fuel cycles
2. Explain:
a. Uranium
b. Uranium mining
c. Uranium milling
3. Uranium and plutonium recycling.
4. Nuclear disposal and nuclear wastes recycling.
5. Explain about power generation by using uranium.
6. Elaborate the term conversion and enrichment.
7. Nuclear waste and compositions of nuclear wastes.
8. Selection of plant location and nuclear safety system.

Unit 4
2 marks
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what is nuclear reactors


what are the types of fast breeding reactors
Define Reactor shielding.
what is fusion reactors
what are the types of nuclear reactors
What is meant by breeding and its ratio?

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Explain the construction and working of nuclear power plant.


Explain the construction and working of Super phenix reactor.
Breeding plutonium and plutonium breeding ratio
Explain the construction and working of Pressurized water
reactor.
a). Explain the construction and working of Boiling water
reactor
b). Explain the construction and working of Gas cooled water
reactor
Explain the construction and working of Fast breeder reactor
Explain the construction and working of CANDU reactor.
Explain the construction and working of sodium graphite
reactor.
a).Components of Nuclear power plants
b). Components of Nuclear reactor

Unit 5
2 marks
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Define Safety and disposal of nuclear

Define plant safety


Radiation hazards and their prevention
How the energy is released in nuclear reaction?
Explain the properties of nuclear states
Properties of proton and neutron

16 marks

1. Nuclear plant safety


2. What are the failures modes of nuclear power plant? Explain in
detail.
3. Explain in detail Vulnerability of nuclear plants to attack.
4. Briefly explain objectives of nuclear safety system.
5. What to do with nuclear waste recycle it?
6. How much nuclear waste does nuclear energy creates?
7. Briefly explain Changes and consequences of accident-criteria for
safety

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