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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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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Kenji Yokoyama, Akira Shono, Makoto Ishikawa
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 157 | Number 3 | November 2007 | Pages 249-263
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE06-109
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Experimental data acquired during experimental fast reactor JOYO MK-I performance tests in the late 1970s have been reevaluated and analyzed with a nuclear analysis system for fast reactors employed by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. For the purpose of improving the prediction accuracy of nuclear characteristics, nominal values and uncertainties of the experimental data were reevaluated in light of knowledge obtained after the MK-I performance test and calculation results based on the latest reactor physics analysis methods. All nominal values were corrected by a formulation of control rod interaction effects proposed in the present paper, and all possible uncertainty factors were evaluated and quantified.The analysis results agreed well with measured values within the experimental and nuclear-induced uncertainties for all the nuclear characteristics of criticality, control rod worth, sodium void reactivity, fuel replacement reactivity, and isothermal temperature coefficient.Meanwhile, the present reevaluated data have been registered with the International Reactor Physics Benchmark Experiments Project with the expectation that these data will be widely used.