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Nuclear Installations Safety
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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NRC engineers share their expertise at the University of Puerto Rico
Robert Roche-Rivera and Marcos Rolón-Acevedo are licensed professional engineers who work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are also alumni of the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM) and have been sharing their knowledge and experience with students at their alma mater since last year, serving as adjunct professors in the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. During the 2023–2024 school year, they each taught two courses: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Power Plant Engineering.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by THD
Wednesday, June 10, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
W. David Pointer
Alternate Chair:
Brian G. Woods
Session Organizer:
Track Organizer:
Igor Bolotnov (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
Advanced high temperature gas cooled reactors typically rely on high pressure gas flows for heat removal during normal operations and a mix of natural convection, radiation and conduction for heat removal under postulated accident conditions. The combination of high heat capacity structures, relatively low power density, high Prandtl number low-density coolant, and multiple heat removal mechanisms offers significant advantages in terms of passive safety. However, this combination also requires the careful development, verification, and validation of experimental facilities, models and analysis tools that must accurately describe a wide range of flow conditions and heat transfer phenomena. This session provides an opportunity to review current efforts in modeling, simulation or experiments and identify current challenges and opportunities associated with the thermal hydraulics of these systems.
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