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Aerospace Nuclear Science & Technology
Organized to promote the advancement of knowledge in the use of nuclear science and technologies in the aerospace application. Specialized nuclear-based technologies and applications are needed to advance the state-of-the-art in aerospace design, engineering and operations to explore planetary bodies in our solar system and beyond, plus enhance the safety of air travel, especially high speed air travel. Areas of interest will include but are not limited to the creation of nuclear-based power and propulsion systems, multifunctional materials to protect humans and electronic components from atmospheric, space, and nuclear power system radiation, human factor strategies for the safety and reliable operation of nuclear power and propulsion plants by non-specialized personnel and more.
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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 194 | Number 8 | August-September 2020 | Pages 825-832
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2020.1753419
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Integral systems test (IST) facilities, which are sometimes referred to as integral effects tests (IETs), play a key role in the design, assessment, and certification of innovative reactor designs. Data obtained using such facilities have been used to benchmark the best-estimate safety analysis computer codes used to evaluate nuclear plant safety. They have also been used to assess the effectiveness of safety system functions under simulated accident conditions. Scaling analyses are an important component in determining the applicability of an evaluation model for its intended purpose. Evaluation models can only approximate the physical behavior of postulated events on a prototype, and the judgment of their adequacy relies heavily on their capability in predicting IETs that were designed to simulate the events analyzed. With few exceptions, all ISTs are subscale representations of the power plants they are built to represent. As thermal-hydraulic computer codes are benchmarked to an IST database, the most important challenge for the analyst is the development of convincing scaling similarities between the IST and the plant. Unless such rules are clearly identified, it would not be possible to extend conclusions from the assessment of the tools against subscale data to the plant scenario time and geometry scales.