Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Master in Nuclear Energy

Description

The Nuclear Energy Master’s program provides knowledge on the current and future needs of the nuclear industry:

• Optimizing the performance of existing nuclear reactors,
• Designing third-generation nuclear installations (reactors and factories for fuel cycle),
• Developing new fourth-generation processes and systems,
• Operating installations,
• Managing waste and decommissioning.

The first year is splitted in 2 tracks: Physics and Engineering and Chemistry and Engineering. The second year offers 5 choices of specialization. The courses are complemented by an internship at a research laboratory where students have the opportunity to put the theoretical knowledge they have acquired into practice.

Objectives

This first-year Master’s program enables students to:

• Enhance their knowledge in nuclear physics, material science, thermohydraulic, neutronics, and nuclear reactor physics.
• Gain knowledge in more specific fields such as mathematics, thermodynamics, economy of energy, data processing, and project management.

This second-year program enables students to specialize by choosing one of five majors:

• Nuclear Plant & Design
• Decommissioning and Waste Management
• Fuel Cycle
• Nuclear Reactor & Physics Engineering
• Operations

Career

After graduating from the Nuclear Energy Master’s program, students will be equipped to build a career in the nuclear energy industry, in particular, the operation of electronuclear power plants:

• Nuclear Plant Design Track: Research and development, design, construction, consulting offices, research in higher education.
• Decommissioning and Waste Management Track: Consultant engineer (define the nature and stages of decommissioning or devise storage during the decommission), implementation engineer (direct and oversee on-site operations), operations engineer for waste storage facilities, project engineer in charge of decommissioning operations, safety engineer responsible for setting onsite regulations for waste management
• Fuel Cycle Track: Engineer (at a raw uranium production site or factory involved in fuel cycle: refinement, enrichment, or recycling); design, engineer, operate, and monitor waste storage sites and nuclear power plant operations
• Nuclear Reactor Physics and Engineering Track: Engineer in the nuclear sector, researcher in the field of nuclear reactors
• Operations Track: Operations engineer, head of operations, safety engineer, head of maintenance, or environmental process engineer