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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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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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ARPA-E announces $40 million to develop transmutation technologies for UNF
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) announced $40 million in funding to develop cutting-edge technologies to enable the transmutation of used nuclear fuel into less-radioactive substances. According to ARPA-E, the new initiative addresses one of the agency’s core goals as outlined by Congress: to provide transformative solutions to improve the management, cleanup, and disposal of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel.
Han Zhang, Peter Titus
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 7 | November 2021 | Pages 687-691
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1912569
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
More and more, soft or hard magnetic materials have been used in the magnetic confinement fusion machine, like reduced-activation ferritic-martensitic steel, which may be used in the first wall and breeding blanket structural material of ITER. Twisted coils in the stellarator may be substituted by permanent magnets. ANSYS electromagnetic simulation has two methods: nodal-based formulation or edge-based formulation. Nodal-based formulation has been widely used in past years. This paper will present a modification to the nodal-based element SOLID97 in ANSYS to form the correct normal boundary condition to model ferromagnetic materials and compare the results, e.g., field, eddy current density, and Lorentz force, to edge-based methods using SOLID236.