ParisTech Nuclear Energy programme (pdf, fr)
ParisTech nuclear energy programme
A global and coherent training and research offering in the field of nuclear energy
Six ParisTech colleges are mobilised in the ParisTech "Nuclear Energy" programme to provide a complete and coherent approach in research and teaching to the new global challenge of energy production.
Several specific courses and four chairs have been set up.
International M.Sc. in Nuclear Energy
The purpose of the M.Sc. in "Nuclear Energy" is to give top-level French and foreign students the principal knowledge required to understand the nuclear industry.
Run by a large consortium of academic institutions with the support of industrial entities, this new course is intended to be a benchmark in France and at international level in the preparation for working in the nuclear energy sector and carrying out research.
Formation d’ingénieur
| COLLEGES | SPECIALITY | THEMES |
| École des Ponts ParisTech | Materials for the generation of energy | Nuclear engineering, structures, sustainability of materials, modelling |
| ENSTA ParisTech | Electronuclear energy | Mechanical modelling of fluids and structures, physics of reactors, fluids-structures interactions |
| Chimie ParisTech | Chemistry and radiochemistry downstream of the nuclear cycle | Nuclear fuel, cycle, waste, recycling and packaging, storage |
| MINES ParisTech | Atomic engineering | Radioactivity, atoms and lasers, nuclear physics and techniques, atomic engineering |
| Arts et Métiers ParisTech | Nuclear Energy | Nuclear reactors and techniques, polymer materials in the nuclear setting, energy prospects |
| École Polytechnique | Energies for the 21st century | Energy in relation to physics, mechanics, IT, applied mathematics, economics and human and social sciences |
Specialised M.Sc. degrees
| COLLEGES | SPECIALITY | THEMES |
| ENSTA ParisTech et Chimie ParisTech | Nuclear engineering | Nuclear sciences and technologies, energy economics, risk management, fuel cycle, design and operation of energy production centres. |
| Arts et Métiers ParisTech | Nuclear safety | Regulatory framework and standards of nuclear safety, risk management, environment, decommissioning of installations, transport of material, waste management and storage, crisis management, safety of installations. |
| Arts et Métiers ParisTech | Maintenance management | Operational safety and reliability, inventory management, maintenance engineering, conditional maintenance, maintenance policy, human factors. |
Teaching and research chairs
Chair in Sustainability of Energy Materials and Structures
This chair will ensure the development of a core of researchers specialising in the ageing and life cycle of materials and structures and working alongside those involved in studying the socio-economic impacts of the ageing of installations. The studies carried out must ensure the management of sites and networks, and anticipate the new regulatory, environmental and economic challenges linked to the safety, sustainability and renovation of economically important installations.
Chair in Sustainable Forms of Energy
In close liaison with EDF, the sector’s industrial partners, the Atomic Energy Commissariat and academic research centres, the Ecole Polytechnique develops research projects in the field of new energy sources. This complements its general programme dedicated to research on energy.
La chair also contributes directly to teaching in the following fields:
- nuclear reactors;
- technology of nuclear reactors and the fuel cycle;
- heat flows and transfers.
Chair in Nuclear Engineering
Backed up by their large-scale research activity in the key fields of the fuel cycle and nuclear engineering, ENSTA ParisTech and Chimie ParisTech pool their expertise in several areas:
- chemistry;
- materials;
- metals and alloys;
- process engineering.
This approach to process chemistry and engineering and to modelling is original. The areas of expertise pooled together enables the construction of thermodynamic models usable for simulating and optimising processes, and exploring technologies such as the applications for fused hydrolysis or thermochemical cycles for hydrogen production.
Chair in Nuclear Materials
MINES ParisTech and AREVA have set up a partnership to carry out research directly involved in the framework of the development of light water reactors. The research also covers the principal known types of environmental deterioration.
The chair also makes a direct contribution to teaching in the fields of the mechanical metallurgy of materials for nuclear reactors, the manufacturing processes of their components and their different modes of mechanical and chemical damage when operating.
