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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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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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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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New laws offer nuclear industry incentives for existing power plant uprates
This year, the U.S. nuclear industry received a much-needed economic boost that could help preserve operating nuclear power plants and incentivize upgrades that extend their lifespan and power output.
Signed into law in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act offers production tax credits (PTCs) for existing nuclear power plants and either PTCs or investment tax credits (ITCs) for new carbon-free generation. These credits could make power uprates—increasing the maximum power level at which a commercial plant may operate—a much more appealing option for utilities.
Motoo Aoyama and Sadao Uchikawa
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 92 | Number 1 | January 1986 | Pages 42-50
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17863
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A new method for solving the neutron diffusion equations in multiconnected regions with arbitrarily shaped boundaries has been developed by using a compound boundary-fitted coordinate transformation. In the compound boundary-fitted coordinate transformation, inner regions and an outer region in the physical plane are transformed by different coordinate systems. The neutron diffusion equations obtained by the coordinate transformation are solved in the rectangular coordinate system for the outer region, and in the cylindrical coordinate system for the inner regions, so that the boundary conditions are represented accurately and detailed calculations in a particular region can be performed without increasing the number of grid points in other regions.
