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Three nations, three ways to recycle plastic waste with nuclear technology
Plastic waste pollutes oceans, streams, and bloodstreams. Nations in Asia and the Pacific are working with the International Atomic Energy Agency through the Nuclear Technology for Controlling Plastic Pollution (NUTEC Plastics) initiative to tackle the problem. Launched in 2020, NUTEC Plastics is focused on using nuclear technology to both track the flow of microplastics and improve upstream plastic recycling before discarded plastic can enter the ecosystem. Irradiation could target hard-to-recycle plastics and the development of bio-based plastics, offering sustainable alternatives to conventional plastic products and building a “circular economy” for plastics, according to the IAEA.
Paul B. Abramson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 62 | Number 2 | February 1977 | Pages 195-214
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A26957
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Subroutine POOL was developed for the study of hypothetical core disruptive accidents in nuclear reactors and, as such, is set up for use as a subroutine in the FX-2 Dynamic Neutronics Code. This combination permits scoping studies of the total neutronic/hydrodynamic interactions and is capable of performing phenomenological investigations of hypothetical problems ranging from the high ramp disassembly calculations, performed in the past by the Lagrangian code VENUS, to the study of recriticality in boiling pools of fuel and steel. POOL specifically includes, in at least parametric fashion, the following phenomena: 1. intra- and inter-element heat transfer by diffusion, convection, and radiation for both fuel and steel inside the pool and at the boundaries 2. local vapor generation and concurrent local pressurization 3. hydrodynamic behavior using the inviscid Navier-Stokes equations in a Eulerian formulation. Sample results are shown for boil-up of an initially quiescent dense pool of fuel and steel. Subroutine POOL was modified by removing the free surface portion of the calculation and the associated expansion of the Eulerian Grid. The combined code, known as FX2-P00L, was used to perform prompt burst calculations for two comparison cases for a lOOO-MW(th) demolike reactor. Good agreement is shown between FX2-POOL and VENUS II for these two hypothetical situations, indicating that the hydrodynamic and thermodynamic assumptions made in POOL are accurate enough for prompt burst analysis and compare well with the VENUS models.