Nuclear-Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems

Who should attend?

You may use the knowledge and skills developed through this course to prepare you for understanding and working with N-R HES, such as:

• Graduate students, alumni and researchers studying or working in energy, energy systems and nuclear science fields;
• Energy and transportation electrification planners;
• Energy, utility and small modular reactor (SMR) provider employees;
• Policy makers and government officials involved with energy systems regulation;
• Energy end users.

What you'll learn

• The needs, requirements, design, and operational aspects of integrated nuclear and renewable hybrid energy systems; 
• The foundations to analyze, design and evaluate integrated nuclear-renewable hybrid energy systems with different implementation strategies that are optimized based on energy demand and user requirements;
• Challenges and approaches to achieve practical and profitable Nuclear-Renewable Hybrid Energy System (N-R HES) deployments, using key parameters such as design, control, and operational factors, including scalability, capital cost, project lifetime, construction period, land acquisition, ecological safety, and technological aspects;
• Business activity modeling with IDEF0 to reflect practical implementation steps with unified activities and practices;
• Techno-economic analysis methods will be explained and used to evaluate different operational scenarios and strategies.

Required elements

Complete both days of the Nuclear-Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems course to receive a formal certificate.

• Learning objectives

  The completion of this short course will enable attendees to acquire essential knowledge and gain experience related to the design and implementation of nuclear – renewable energy systems, including the following:

  • Understand different nuclear-renewable design strategies
  • Understand design considerations and requirements, and performance measures of nuclear- renewable hybrid energy systems
  • Understand implementation challenges, gaps, and planning strategies
  • Practice techno-economic analysis and their applications on different integration and implementation strategies
• Day 1
  • Course introduction
  • Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Systems
  • Nuclear Power Technologies
  • Nuclear-Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems
• Day 2
  • Demand Side Management
  • Case Studies
  • Micro Hybrid Energy Systems
  • Techno-Economic Analysis