The topics include:
• offgas production and measurement
• fission gasses produced
• offgas reporting
• fuel monitoring recommendations
• Offgas System components
• Offgas Sampler and Monitor components
• recoil release of classic offgas analysis and its significance
• diffusion release of classic offgas analysis and its significance
• equilibrium release of classic offgas analysis and its significance
• effects of large defects
• fuel defect indicators and their sensitivity in recognizing fuel defects
• affects on classic types of releases with recent defects
• normalized release rate calculation
• iodines sampling
• equilibrium concentration of iodines determination and calculation
• iodine carryover effects on release rate
• iodine release rate calculation using the normalized release rate for iodine formula
• delay from fuel to sample point determination and calculation
• Xe-133 trending
• Xe-138 to Xe-133 ratio
• reactor iodines and fuel failure
• actions to be taken after the detection of a fuel defect
• post refueling recoil level prediction
• trending reactor nuclides
• Cs-134 to Cs-137 ratios and fuel sipping.
On-line summaries are included in the course material
On-line examinations are administered
Course equivalency: 2 days
