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Nuclear energy for maritime shipping and coastal applications
The Boston-based Deon Policy Institute has published a white paper that examines the applications of nuclear energy in the maritime sector—specifically, floating nuclear power plants and nuclear propulsion for commercial vessels. Topics covered include available technologies, preliminary cost estimates, and a status update on the regulatory framework.
Unique opportunity: The paper points out that nuclear energy has the potential to benefit the shipping industry with high energy efficiency, lower operating costs, and zero carbon emissions. The report has a special focus on Greece, a nation that controls about 20 percent of the global commercial fleet and thus has an opportunity to take a leading role in the transition to nuclear-powered shipping.
C. J. Mueller, J. K. Vaurio
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 2 | February 1979 | Pages 264-278
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20616
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This paper describes the basic equations and solution techniques of a collection of heat transfer and coolant voiding dynamics models that have been developed and successfully applied to simulate hypothetical accidents in liquid-metal-cooled fast breeder reactors (LMFBRs) to the point of permanent subcriticality or to the initiation of a prompt-critical excursion. These models emphasize analytic and integral solution techniques to minimize computational time and have been programmed into the SACO fast-running accident analysis computer code. The comparisons of SACO results to analogous SAS3D results used to qualify these models are illustrated and discussed. The fast-running nature of these models makes them an ideal sensitivity analysis tool for use in probabilistic evaluations of LMFBR accidents. Their use in this application is illustrated.