Master Year 2 Nuclear Energy

Year | Master Year 2 |
Program | Nuclear Energy |
ECTS Credits | 60 |
Language | English |
Orientation | Research or Industry |
Location | Palaiseau Campus, Institut national des sciences et techniques nucléaires (CEA), CentraleSupélec, ChimieParisTech, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech |
Course duration | 12 months, full time |
Course start | September |
Degree awarded | Master’s degree |
WHY ENROLL IN THIS PROGRAM?
Asset n° 1
International program, strong support from the nuclear industries, program built in partnership with renowned engineering school
Asset n°2
Acquire in-depth scientific knowledge in the field of nuclear energy through a multidisciplinary approach. A very large proportion of teachers come from the nuclear industry (EDF, FRAMATOME, ORANO, CEA, ANDRA…)
Asset n°3
Opportunities, for an internship or a job, are numerous both in large companies (EDF, ORANO, Framatome and CEA) and in the supply chain. Approximately 80% of students find a job directly at the end of their internship.
The Master Nuclear Energy is an international Master's degree, whose objective is to provide high‐level foreign and French students with the main knowledge necessary for the nuclear industry producing low‐carbon electricity. Through the quality and scope of the content processed, it makes it possible to meet a wide spectrum of the needs of companies in this field by recruiting students with high initial employability. This Master's degree also aims to prepare students for research in the nuclear field (e. g. Reactor Physics, Modeling and Simulation, Instrumentation, Radiochemistry). The entire Master's degree therefore addresses the different professions in civil nuclear energy. Its teaching is entirely provided in English.
The second year is splitted in five tracks:
The educational objective of this track is to provide in-depth training in the field of nuclear reactor physics: existing reactor operations, developing and installing third-generation reactors and, designing and developing future Generation IV systems. These objectives require a systematic and overall vision to provide a grasp of the whole dimension of civil nuclear power. Indeed, reactor-related studies generally imply a strong coupling between thermohydraulics, neutronics, reactor materials and fuel.
The educational objective of this track is to give students a deep education in the field of design and construction of nuclear installations, particularly in the fields of safety monitoring, general operation, structures and infrastructures as well as systems and equipments. It involves the understanding of physical phenomena, which underlie the operation of nuclear reactors. Students are initiated to the main codes of structures calculation, nuclear reactor operation, radiation protection concepts related to the protection of man and his environment. This track aims to give students a complete skill in the Nuclear Energy field, not only technical, but also economical, organizational and managerial.
The courses in this major enable students to learn how to operate and maintain safely and efficiently nuclear facilities, in particular an electro-nuclear power plant. The courses provide students with a strong knowledge of the physical phenomena developed in the plant during nominal operation, non-nominal conditions which affect safe operation. Students are trained on the procedures needed to keep or recover the safe state of operation of systems and ensure protection of people and the environment. Organizational and managerial skills will complement deep technical competence.
The educational objective of this track is to give the knowledge needed for the various stages of the fuel cycle; with a particular focus on separation and transmutation. Recent advances in this area are leading to a revolution in the approach to the reactor cycle by introducing the notion of recycling and incineration of the minor actinides. The vision of the Fuel Cycle integrates the confinement of radio nuclides prior to storage, the development of new materials and the understanding of chemical mechanisms and geochemistry, which govern the evolution of storage. The basic research concepts that are necessary to develop processes and design new industrial equipment and tools are introduced. The Fuel Cycle major has a dynamic approach where education, R&D, development and industrial engineering are strongly correlated.
The educational objectives of this track are to give the necessary knowledge for the decommissioning of old nuclear facilities and management of waste. It covers all procedures needed to ensure the safety of people and environment.
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:
- Track NPD: Research and development, design, construction, consulting offices, research in higher education.
- Track DWM: 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
- Track FC: 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
- Track NRPE: Engineer in the nuclear sector, researcher in the field of nuclear reactors
- Track O: Operations engineer, head of operations, safety engineer, head of maintenance or environmental process engineer
Safety and risk management
Introduction to Safety. Criticality-Safety |
24h 3 ECTS English |
Radiation Protection |
28.5h 3 ECTS English |
Risk Management (track NRPE is not concerned by this course) |
30h 4 ECTS English |
Electricity production : tools, needs and capacities
PWR Functional Description |
24h 4 ECTS English |
Nuclear Fuel Cycles. Nuclear Reactor Systems |
27h 3 ECTS English |
Energy transition , flexibility |
15h 2 ECTS English |
Internship
20 weeks (minimum) - 18 ECTS
Reactor physics 1
Thermohydraulics |
33h 4 ECTS English |
Neutronics 1 |
39h 4 ECTS English |
Nuclear Materials |
42h 4 ECTS English |
Nuclear Physics |
42h 4 ECTS English |
Reactor physics 2
Reactor Physics and Simulation |
27h 2 ECTS English |
Multiphysics & Uncertainties |
15h 2 ECTS English |
Advanced Thermohydraulics |
36h 4 ECTS English |
Neutronics 2 |
60h 4 ECTS English |
Nuclear reactor physics and operation
Nuclear Physics and Neutronics |
27h 3 ECTS English |
Thermohydraulics |
33h 4 ECTS English |
Calculation code |
30h 3 ECTS English |
System. & equipment |
39h 4 ECTS English |
Mechanical engineering and design for nuclear power plants
Material Physics Concrete |
24h 2 ECTS English |
From seismology to earthquake engineering |
27h 2 ECTS English |
Numerical –Design |
33h 3 ECTS English |
Design |
24h 2 ECTS English |
Material Physics Corrosion |
12h 1 ECTS English |
Physics
Nuclear Physics and Neutronics |
27h 3 ECTS English |
Thermohydraulics |
33h 4 ECTS English |
Operationnal
Operation management |
30h 3 ECTS English |
Control-command and code simulation |
51h 4.5 ECTS English |
Maintenance |
42h 4 ECTS English |
Safety and production |
42h 4 ECTS English |
Non Destructive Testing |
12h 1.5 ECTS English |
Safety and risk management
Introduction to Nuclear Physics, Neutronics |
24h 2 ECTS English |
Cooling & Molten salt |
31h 3 ECTS English |
Radiochemistry |
12h 2 ECTS English |
Electricity Production : tools, needs and capacities
Fuel : from mine to the reactor |
21h 3 ECTS English |
Separation and recycling
|
33h 4 ECTS English |
Process simulation & process control
|
31h 3 ECTS English |
Containment waste |
33h 4 ECTS English |
Radioactive waste management & design
|
27h 3 ECTS English |
Decommissioning Waste management principles and methodology
Introduction to Nuclear Physics, Neutronics |
24h 2 ECTS English |
Dismantling and decommissioning nuclear facitities |
49h 5 ECTS English |
Politics, strategy, management decommissioning |
39h 5 ECTS English |
Decommissioning Waste management: applications
Calculation codes 1 |
18h 2 ECTS English |
Calculation codes 2 |
27h 2 ECTS English |
Methods of decommissioning |
42h 4 ECTS English |
Waste managment. |
51h 4 ECTS English |
Admission requirements
Academic prerequisites
- Track NRPE: Students from university with science courses, in France or abroad, having validated 60 ECTS (Master of Science of Physics, Chemistry or Nuclear Engineering).
- Track NPD: Students from university with science courses, in France or abroad, having validated 60 ECTS (Master of Science of Physics, Mechanical or Nuclear Engineering).
- Track O: Students from university with science courses, in France or abroad, having validated 60 ECTS (Master of Science of Physics, Chemistry, Mechanical or Nuclear Engineering).
- Track FC: Students from university with science courses, in France or abroad, having validated 60 ECTS (Master of Science of Chemistry or Nuclear Engineering).
- Track DWM: Students from university with science courses, in France or abroad, having validated 60 ECTS (Master of Science of Physics, Chemistry, Mechanical or Nuclear Engineering).
Language prerequisites
English
How to apply
Applications can be submitted exclusively online. You will need to provide the following documents:
- Transcript
- Two academic references (added online directly by your referees)
- CV/resume
- Statement of purpose
You will receive an answer in your candidate space within 2 months of the closing date for the application session.
Fees and scholarships
The Master in Nuclear Engineering applies the following exemption policy:
- Students who are citizens of the EU/EEA/Switzerland pay only the regulated fees: 4,243€
- EMINE students are totally exempt from fees (according to the rules of this program).
- Students who are not EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens and who follow the entire Master's program (Master Year 1 & Master Year 2) pay 4,000€ tuition fees in Master Year 1, then 8,000€ in Master Year 2. However, they will be notified that this is an exemption from the regular fee and not a lowering of the level of the program and its contents.
- Students who are not EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens and who enroll directly in Master Year 2 pay 12,000€ in tuition fees unless there is a specific agreement or MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) between Institut Polytechnique de Paris and their home institution.
Find out more about scholarships
Applications and admission dates
Coordinator
- Master Year 2: Anne-Lise GLOANEC
- Track NRPE: Pascal DANNUS & Cheikh DIOP
- Track NPD: Kim PHAM
- Track FC: Gregory LEFEVRE & Veronika ZINOVYEVA
- Track O: Jing DAI
- Track DWM: Sébastien GERVILLERS & Frédérique HOURCADE
Program office
General enquiries
The Master Nuclear Energy is an international Master's degree, whose objective is to provide high‐level foreign and French students with the main knowledge necessary for the nuclear industry producing low‐carbon electricity. Through the quality and scope of the content processed, it makes it possible to meet a wide spectrum of the needs of companies in this field by recruiting students with high initial employability. This Master's degree also aims to prepare students for research in the nuclear field (e. g. Reactor Physics, Modeling and Simulation, Instrumentation, Radiochemistry). The entire Master's degree therefore addresses the different professions in civil nuclear energy. Its teaching is entirely provided in English.
The second year is splitted in five tracks:
The educational objective of this track is to provide in-depth training in the field of nuclear reactor physics: existing reactor operations, developing and installing third-generation reactors and, designing and developing future Generation IV systems. These objectives require a systematic and overall vision to provide a grasp of the whole dimension of civil nuclear power. Indeed, reactor-related studies generally imply a strong coupling between thermohydraulics, neutronics, reactor materials and fuel.
The educational objective of this track is to give students a deep education in the field of design and construction of nuclear installations, particularly in the fields of safety monitoring, general operation, structures and infrastructures as well as systems and equipments. It involves the understanding of physical phenomena, which underlie the operation of nuclear reactors. Students are initiated to the main codes of structures calculation, nuclear reactor operation, radiation protection concepts related to the protection of man and his environment. This track aims to give students a complete skill in the Nuclear Energy field, not only technical, but also economical, organizational and managerial.
The courses in this major enable students to learn how to operate and maintain safely and efficiently nuclear facilities, in particular an electro-nuclear power plant. The courses provide students with a strong knowledge of the physical phenomena developed in the plant during nominal operation, non-nominal conditions which affect safe operation. Students are trained on the procedures needed to keep or recover the safe state of operation of systems and ensure protection of people and the environment. Organizational and managerial skills will complement deep technical competence.
The educational objective of this track is to give the knowledge needed for the various stages of the fuel cycle; with a particular focus on separation and transmutation. Recent advances in this area are leading to a revolution in the approach to the reactor cycle by introducing the notion of recycling and incineration of the minor actinides. The vision of the Fuel Cycle integrates the confinement of radio nuclides prior to storage, the development of new materials and the understanding of chemical mechanisms and geochemistry, which govern the evolution of storage. The basic research concepts that are necessary to develop processes and design new industrial equipment and tools are introduced. The Fuel Cycle major has a dynamic approach where education, R&D, development and industrial engineering are strongly correlated.
The educational objectives of this track are to give the necessary knowledge for the decommissioning of old nuclear facilities and management of waste. It covers all procedures needed to ensure the safety of people and environment.
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:
- Track NPD: Research and development, design, construction, consulting offices, research in higher education.
- Track DWM: 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
- Track FC: 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
- Track NRPE: Engineer in the nuclear sector, researcher in the field of nuclear reactors
- Track O: Operations engineer, head of operations, safety engineer, head of maintenance or environmental process engineer
Safety and risk management
Introduction to Safety. Criticality-Safety |
24h 3 ECTS English |
Radiation Protection |
28.5h 3 ECTS English |
Risk Management (track NRPE is not concerned by this course) |
30h 4 ECTS English |
Electricity production : tools, needs and capacities
PWR Functional Description |
24h 4 ECTS English |
Nuclear Fuel Cycles. Nuclear Reactor Systems |
27h 3 ECTS English |
Energy transition , flexibility |
15h 2 ECTS English |
Internship
20 weeks (minimum) - 18 ECTS
Reactor physics 1
Thermohydraulics |
33h 4 ECTS English |
Neutronics 1 |
39h 4 ECTS English |
Nuclear Materials |
42h 4 ECTS English |
Nuclear Physics |
42h 4 ECTS English |
Reactor physics 2
Reactor Physics and Simulation |
27h 2 ECTS English |
Multiphysics & Uncertainties |
15h 2 ECTS English |
Advanced Thermohydraulics |
36h 4 ECTS English |
Neutronics 2 |
60h 4 ECTS English |
Nuclear reactor physics and operation
Nuclear Physics and Neutronics |
27h 3 ECTS English |
Thermohydraulics |
33h 4 ECTS English |
Calculation code |
30h 3 ECTS English |
System. & equipment |
39h 4 ECTS English |
Mechanical engineering and design for nuclear power plants
Material Physics Concrete |
24h 2 ECTS English |
From seismology to earthquake engineering |
27h 2 ECTS English |
Numerical –Design |
33h 3 ECTS English |
Design |
24h 2 ECTS English |
Material Physics Corrosion |
12h 1 ECTS English |
Physics
Nuclear Physics and Neutronics |
27h 3 ECTS English |
Thermohydraulics |
33h 4 ECTS English |
Operationnal
Operation management |
30h 3 ECTS English |
Control-command and code simulation |
51h 4.5 ECTS English |
Maintenance |
42h 4 ECTS English |
Safety and production |
42h 4 ECTS English |
Non Destructive Testing |
12h 1.5 ECTS English |
Safety and risk management
Introduction to Nuclear Physics, Neutronics |
24h 2 ECTS English |
Cooling & Molten salt |
31h 3 ECTS English |
Radiochemistry |
12h 2 ECTS English |
Electricity Production : tools, needs and capacities
Fuel : from mine to the reactor |
21h 3 ECTS English |
Separation and recycling
|
33h 4 ECTS English |
Process simulation & process control
|
31h 3 ECTS English |
Containment waste |
33h 4 ECTS English |
Radioactive waste management & design
|
27h 3 ECTS English |
Decommissioning Waste management principles and methodology
Introduction to Nuclear Physics, Neutronics |
24h 2 ECTS English |
Dismantling and decommissioning nuclear facitities |
49h 5 ECTS English |
Politics, strategy, management decommissioning |
39h 5 ECTS English |
Decommissioning Waste management: applications
Calculation codes 1 |
18h 2 ECTS English |
Calculation codes 2 |
27h 2 ECTS English |
Methods of decommissioning |
42h 4 ECTS English |
Waste managment. |
51h 4 ECTS English |
Admission requirements
Academic prerequisites
- Track NRPE: Students from university with science courses, in France or abroad, having validated 60 ECTS (Master of Science of Physics, Chemistry or Nuclear Engineering).
- Track NPD: Students from university with science courses, in France or abroad, having validated 60 ECTS (Master of Science of Physics, Mechanical or Nuclear Engineering).
- Track O: Students from university with science courses, in France or abroad, having validated 60 ECTS (Master of Science of Physics, Chemistry, Mechanical or Nuclear Engineering).
- Track FC: Students from university with science courses, in France or abroad, having validated 60 ECTS (Master of Science of Chemistry or Nuclear Engineering).
- Track DWM: Students from university with science courses, in France or abroad, having validated 60 ECTS (Master of Science of Physics, Chemistry, Mechanical or Nuclear Engineering).
Language prerequisites
English
How to apply
Applications can be submitted exclusively online. You will need to provide the following documents:
- Transcript
- Two academic references (added online directly by your referees)
- CV/resume
- Statement of purpose
You will receive an answer in your candidate space within 2 months of the closing date for the application session.
Fees and scholarships
The Master in Nuclear Engineering applies the following exemption policy:
- Students who are citizens of the EU/EEA/Switzerland pay only the regulated fees: 4,243€
- EMINE students are totally exempt from fees (according to the rules of this program).
- Students who are not EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens and who follow the entire Master's program (Master Year 1 & Master Year 2) pay 4,000€ tuition fees in Master Year 1, then 8,000€ in Master Year 2. However, they will be notified that this is an exemption from the regular fee and not a lowering of the level of the program and its contents.
- Students who are not EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens and who enroll directly in Master Year 2 pay 12,000€ in tuition fees unless there is a specific agreement or MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) between Institut Polytechnique de Paris and their home institution.
Find out more about scholarships
Applications and admission dates
Coordinator
- Master Year 2: Anne-Lise GLOANEC
- Track NRPE: Pascal DANNUS & Cheikh DIOP
- Track NPD: Kim PHAM
- Track FC: Gregory LEFEVRE & Veronika ZINOVYEVA
- Track O: Jing DAI
- Track DWM: Sébastien GERVILLERS & Frédérique HOURCADE