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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.
Chin-Jen Chang, Samim Anghaie
Nuclear Technology | Volume 124 | Number 3 | December 1998 | Pages 265-275
Technical Paper | Radiation Measurements and Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT98-A2925
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A high-definition gamma scanning method for the near-field measurement of radionuclide inventories in a large nuclear waste barrel is presented. The method introduced is especially accurate for radionuclides with multiple gamma energy peaks. Multiple detectors positioned as closely as possible to the waste barrel are used to measure the radiation field emanating from the distributed radiation sources. The total source activity is reconstructed by using the conjugate gradient with nonnegative constraint method or the maximum likelihood expectation maximum method based on measured detector responses. The maximum measurement error bond and its associated confidence level for the developed gamma scanning system are determined statistically by performing a large number of numerical experiments that take into consideration the counting statistics, the nonuniformity of source distribution, and the heterogeneous density of the self-absorbing medium. The accuracy and reliability of the system are verified through a series of real measurements with randomly distributed 192Ir sources in a 208-litre waste barrel. The results of these measurements are in full agreement with the estimated error and the confidence level that are predicted by the numerical simulation.