Nuclear Packaging Graduate Program Courses

This page lists the twenty-nine courses that count toward the Graduate Certificate in Nuclear Packaging (GCNP) and the Graduate Certificate in Transportation Security and Safeguards (GCTSS), and divides them into categories and subcategories.  For each class, the list indicates the course number, name, units, and host institution. 

Courses offered by DOE Packaging University

All twenty-one Packaging University courses are taught in-person by subject matter experts at the following DOE national laboratories or other authorized locations: Argonne (ANL), Lawrence Livermore (LLNL), Los Alamos (LANL), Oak Ridge (ORNL), Pacific Northwest (PNNL), Sandia (SNL) and Savannah River (SRNL).  The Packaging University course schedule provides national laboratory enrollment/fee and schedule information for upcoming classes.

Nuclear Packaging Courses                     

• Quality Assurance                      
  
  • NP 701 Quality Assurance for Transport Packaging and Storage Casks, 1 unit, ANL
• Packaging Analysis                    
  
  • NP 604 Radioactive Material Packaging: Welding/NDE QC & Software QA, 1 unit, LLNL
  • NP 605 Thermal Modeling and Testing of RAM Packages, 1 unit, SNL
  • NP 606 Containment Analysis of Radioactive Material Transportation, 1 unit, LLNL
  • NP 607 Radiation and Nuclear Criticality Analysis of RAM Packages, 1 unit, ORNL
  • NP 655 Structural Analysis/Testing of Radioactive Material Packages, 1 unit, SNL
  • NP 700 ASME Pressure Vessel Code for Nuclear Transport and Storage ,1 unit, ANL
  • NP 702 SARP Review and Confirmatory Analysis, 2 unit, LLNL
• Packaging Operation                
  
  • NP 608 Radioactive Material Package Operations and Leak Testing, 1 unit, SRNL
  • NP 615 Facility Decommissioning and Site/Facility Closure, 1 unit, ANL
  • NP 652 Response to Radioactive Material Transport Emergencies, 1 unit, ANL
  • NP 658 Use of Certified Type B and Fissile Packages, 1 unit, LANL
  • NP 703 Management of SARP Preparation, 1 unit, SRNL

Transportation Security and Safeguards Courses                  

• NP 621 Fundamentals of Cyber-Physical Security, 1 unit, PNNL
• NP 625 Transportation Physical Security, 1 unit, SNL
• NP 627 Introduction to Explosives Engineering for Physical Security, 1 unit, SNL
• NP 632 Fundamentals of Nondestructive Assay, 1 unit, ORNL
• NP 710 Nuclear Security During US Domestic Transport, 1 unit, ANL
• NP 711 Nuclear Security During International Transport, 1 unit, ANL
• NP 720 Fundamentals of Nuclear Security, 1 unit, SNL
• NP 730 Fundamentals of Nuclear Safeguards, 1 unit, ORNL

Courses offered by the University of Nevada, Reno

All eight of these courses are 3 units and taught by University faculty members from the Mechanical Engineering (ME) or Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) departments.  While two are designed to be accessible to off-campus students, the other six are generally only available on-campus.   

University of Nevada, Reno Courses Available to Off-campus Students                          

• NP 640 Nuclear Packaging Projects, 3 unit, University of Nevada, Reno (at student’s workplace)
• ME 672 Introduction to Nuclear Packaging, 3 unit, University of Nevada, Reno (synchronously on-line and in-person)

University of Nevada, Reno Courses Only Available to On-Campus Students                       

• ME 675 Introduction to Combustion, 3 unit, University of Nevada, Reno
• MSE 601 Corrosion of Metals, 3 unit, University of Nevada, Reno
• MSE 665 Nuclear Power Fundamentals, 3 unit, University of Nevada, Reno
• MSE 666 Nuclear Fuel Cycle, 3 unit, University of Nevada, Reno
• MSE 667 Radiation Detection and Measurement, 3 unit, University of Nevada, Reno
• MSE 668 Nuclear Materials, 3 unit, University of Nevada, Reno