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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
Yasuyuki Itoh, Tohru Sugawara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 12 | Number 1 | July 1987 | Pages 153-159
Technical Paper | Plasma Heating System | doi.org/10.13182/FST87-A25059
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A multimode analysis has been carried out to clarify growing frequencies of a 1-MW, 150-GHz dual electron-beam quasi-optical gyrotron oscillator, with a cavity resonator composed of two coaxial annular mirrors. The results show that the gyrotron can be operated at a single frequency with a fundamental mode in the azimuthal direction for the present range of parameters. Its achievable efficiency is 40% when the magnetic field of the cavity is shifted after the operation mode is grown up.