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The Radiation Protection and Shielding Division is developing and promoting radiation protection and shielding aspects of nuclear science and technology — including interaction of nuclear radiation with materials and biological systems, instruments and techniques for the measurement of nuclear radiation fields, and radiation shield design and evaluation.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
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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.
Workshop
Thursday, April 8, 2021|4:00–6:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jason Hou
Alternate Chair:
Alexander W. Bataller
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NC State Univ.)
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Session Producers:
Yuqiao Joy Fan (NCSU)
Our increasing need for safe, abundant, reliable, and carbon-free energy sources is stimulating renewed interest for employing nuclear energy to power our world. New materials and technologies that can address sustainability, cost, and waste issues of current water-based reactors is critical for realizing a future powered by the atom. Among these concepts is the utilization of molten salts as both the reactor coolant and as a fuel solvent, namely, the molten salt reactor (MSR). This workshop will provide an overview of the MSR concept and current technological challenges facing its development and deployment. On the experimental side, we will compare classical approaches to molten salt characterization with modern-day developments, with an emphasis on laser-based diagnostics. We will discuss the challenges associated with the modeling and simulation (M&S) capabilities, introduce the important physics spaces relevant to various MSR designs, and discuss the tight coupling of single physics modules to enable multi-physics simulation of the core and system.
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