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Nuclear Packaging Graduate Program Courses

This page lists all courses offered by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Packaging University and the 91·çÃùÄñ³ª Nuclear Packaging Graduate Program (NPGP) that count toward the  (GCNP) and the  (GCTSS).  For each class, this page indicates the course number/name, host institution, number of units and if the course is required for one of the certificates. 

Packaging University courses

This list breaks the 21 one- and two-unit Packaging University courses into seven topic areas (some courses could logically be in multiple areas). These courses are taught in-person by subject matter experts at the DOE national laboratories: Argonne (ANL), Los Alamos (LANL), Lawrence Livermore (LLNL), Oak Ridge (ORNL), Pacific Northwest (PNNL), Sandia (SNL) and Savannah River (SRNL), or at other authorized locations. The  provides a schedule and national laboratory enrollment/fee information for upcoming classes.

Safety Analysis Reports for Packing (SARP) — for regulatory reviewers, preparers and project managers

  • NP 701: Quality Assurance for Transport Packaging and Storage Casks | ANL | 1 unit | required for GCNP
  • NP 702: SARP Review and Confirmatory Analysis (two weeks) | LLNL | 2 units | required for GCNP
  • NP 703: Management of SARP Preparation | SRNL | 1 unit

Package Design and Evaluation — for structural, thermal, containment, shielding and critical nuclear safety analysts

  • NP 604: Radioactive Material Packaging: Welding/Nondestructive Evaluation/Quality Control & Software Quality Assurance | LLNL | 1 unit
  • NP 605: Thermal Modeling and Testing of Radioactive Materials (RAM) Packages | SNL | 1 unit
  • NP 606: Containment Analysis of Radioactive Material Transportation | LLNL | 1 unit
  • NP 607: Radiation and Nuclear Criticality Analysis of RAM Packages | ORNL | 1 unit
  • NP 655: Structural Analysis of Radioactive Material Packages | SNL | 1 unit |
  • NP 700: ASME Pressure Vessel Code for Nuclear Transport and Storage | ANL | 1 unit | required for GCNP

Package Operation, Use and Maintenance

  • NP 608: Radioactive Material Package Operations and Leak Testing | SRNL | 1 unit
  • NP 658: Use of Certified Type B and Fissile Packages | LANL | 1 unit

Nuclear Security

  • NP 621: Fundamentals of Cyber-Physical Security | PNNL | 1 unit
  • NP 627: Explosive Analysis of Nuclear Packages | SNL | 1 unit
  • NP 720: Fundamentals of Nuclear Security | SNL | 1 unit | required for GCTSS

Transportation Security

  • NP 625: Transportation Physical Security | SNL | 1 unit
  • NP 652: Response to Radioactive Material Transport Emergencies | ANL | 1 unit
  • NP 710: Nuclear Security During US Domestic Transport |ANL | 1 unit | required for GCTSS
  • NP 711: Nuclear Security During International Transport | ANL | 1 unit | required for GCTSS

Safeguards

  • NP 632: Fundamentals of Nondestructive Assay | ORNL | 1 unit
  • NP 730: Fundamentals of Nuclear Safeguards | ORNL | 1 unit | required for GCTSS

Related Topic

  • NP 615: Facility Decommissioning and Site/Facility Closure | ANL | 1 unit

91·çÃùÄñ³ª courses

These courses are taught by University faculty members. Some courses are only available to on-campus students. 

Courses available to on- and off-campus students

  • NP 640: Nuclear Packaging Internships | Any nuclear site | 3 units
  • ME 672: Introduction to Nuclear Packaging | 91·çÃùÄñ³ª or online | 3 units

Courses available to on-campus students only

  • ME 675: Introduction to Combustion | 3 units
  • MSE 601: Corrosion of Metals | 3 units
  • MSE 665: Nuclear Power Fundamentals | 3 units
  • MSE 666: Nuclear Fuel Cycle | 3 units
  • MSE 667: Radiation Detection and Measurement | 3 units
  • MSE 668 Nuclear Materials | 3 units