Facilities

Advanced Computational Reactor Engineering (ACRE) Laboratory
ACRE Laboratory is a state of art laboratory containing latest computational resources for lengthy and cumbersome calculations involved in nuclear reactor analysis & design, nuclear reactor safety, thermal hydraulics, plasma physics, radiation shielding, seismology and environmental engineering. It contains work stations with Windows® and Linux operating system connected to servers for storage solution. It also will soon add Cluster computing (36 nodes) and ALTIX system to its resource list. This hardware is equipped with latest computational tools for reactor engineering calculations.

Health Physics Laboratory
The basic purpose of the health physics laboratory is to ensure the safety of working personnel within safe limits in radiation environment. Health physics laboratory has all the latest equipment including pocket dosimeters, personal radiation monitors, survey meters, contamination monitors and TLD system for the essential training of students and radiation workers in the field of radiation safety. The experiments span a broad spectrum from basic training to applied research in environmental dose assessment and risk analysis.

Shielding Laboratory
The Radiation shielding laboratory was established to have a practical sense of radiation safety by means of shielding. It was upgraded to become an integral part of MS Nuclear Engineering curriculum. It provides facilities from basic training to applied research in the field of Shield Design including nuclear cross section measurement, attenuation and albedo calculations. In addition to that the facilities for the study of Neutron diffusion parameters, alpha and fission fragment spectroscopy are available.

Training Simulator
Department of nuclear engineering has a PWR simulator that provides an opportunity to MS Nuclear Engineering students to step into the shoes of a reactor operator. Simulator helps students in understanding of various systems of nuclear power plant. Real time data can be seen and stored on digital computer for further analysis. The sequence of events in case of accidents such as reactor trip, turbine trip, and loss of coolant can be simulated.