Master in Nuclear Energy
Palaiseau, France
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
29 May 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 4,243 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* non EU/EEA/Switzerland students - 2 year program: 4,000€ for Year 1 and 8,000€ for year 2 - only year 2 program: 12 000€ | EU/EEA/Switzerland students: 4243€/year |Students from the EIT InnoEnergy partnership program are fully exempted
Introduction
Why enroll in this program?
Asset n° 1
International program, strong support from the nuclear industries, program built in partnership with renowned engineering schools
Asset n°2
Acquire in-depth scientific knowledge in the field of nuclear energy through a multidisciplinary approach. Professors are mainly experts 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 and in the supply chain. Approximately 80% of students find a job directly at the end of their internship.
Admissions
Curriculum
Description
The Nuclear Energy Master’s program provides knowledge on the current and future needs of the nuclear industry:
- Optimizing the performance of existing nuclear reactors,
- Designing third-generation nuclear installations (reactors and factories for fuel cycle),
- Developing new fourth-generation processes and systems,
- Operating installations,
- Managing waste and decommissioning.
The first year is splitted in 2 tracks: Physics and Engineering and Chemistry and Engineering. The second year offers 5 choices of specialization. The courses are complemented by an internship at a research laboratory where students have the opportunity to put the theoretical knowledge they have acquired into practice.
Program Outcome
Objectives
This first-year Master’s program enables students to:
- Enhance their knowledge in nuclear physics, material science, thermohydraulic, neutronics, and nuclear reactor physics.
- Gain knowledge in more specific fields such as mathematics, thermodynamics, economy of energy, data processing, and project management.
This second-year program enables students to specialize by choosing one of five majors:
- Nuclear Plant & Design
- Decommissioning and Waste Management
- Fuel Cycle
- Nuclear Reactor & Physics Engineering
- Operations
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Career Opportunities
Career
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:
- Nuclear Plant Design Track: Research and development, design, construction, consulting offices, research in higher education.
- Decommissioning and Waste Management Track: 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
- Fuel Cycle Track: 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
- Nuclear Reactor Physics and Engineering Track: Engineer in the nuclear sector, researcher in the field of nuclear reactors
- Operations Track: Operations engineer, head of operations, safety engineer, head of maintenance, or environmental process engineer