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ANS Fireside Chat introduces new leaders for ANS, UCOR
On Tuesday, during Mark Peters’s last days as the American Nuclear Society’s vice president/president-elect before assuming the presidency on June 4, he sat down with ANS CEO Craig Piercy for a Fireside Chat at the Annual Conference.
The MITRE CEO weighed in on his career path, what excites and worries him about the resurgence of nuclear energy, and juggling work-life balance with his new duties as ANS’s 72nd president.
“It’s going to be a lot of fun. It’s an important year,” he told Piercy.
J. K. Long
Nuclear Technology | Volume 6 | Number 2 | February 1969 | Pages 116-126
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28242
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This study of EBR-II operating behavior, which began with a reexamination of the thermal analysis of fuel pins under varying rates of coolant flow, incorporates the recent interpretations of the bowing behavior of the subassemblies. The nonlinear bowing effects are combined with the linear expansion effects in equations that express the power-reactivity decrement as a function of both power and flow. Comparison with experiments indicates agreement to within a few inhours. Differentiation of the equations leads to expressions for power and flow coefficients of reactivity. The reduced flow data are used to determine an effective average thermal expansion coefficient for the fuel.