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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
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Judge temporarily blocks DOE’s move to slash university research funding
A group of universities led by the American Association of Universities (AAU) acted swiftly to oppose a policy action by the Department of Energy that would cut the funds it pays to universities for the indirect costs of research under DOE grants. The group filed suit Monday, April 14, challenging a what it termed a “flagrantly unlawful action” that could “devastate scientific research at America’s universities.”
By Wednesday, the U.S. District Court judge hearing the case issued a temporary restraining order effective nationwide, preventing the DOE from implementing the policy or terminating any existing grants.
Chun-Chang Chao, Chin-Jang Chang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 130 | Number 1 | April 2000 | Pages 27-38
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT00-A3075
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The DPRA-SGTR computer program was written to develop a dynamic event tree for the analysis of a steam generator (SG) tube rupture (SGTR) event. Using the dynamic event tree, a full-scope understanding of the possible responses of a plant following an SGTR event and the related actions with the emergency operating procedures (EOPs) can be analyzed. RELAP5/MOD3.2 was linked to DPRA-SGTR to calculate the thermal-hydraulic response of a Westinghouse three-loop pressurized water reactor at the Maanshan nuclear power plant. One SG tube with a double-ended break was postulated at the beginning of the accident. The plant thermal-hydraulic behaviors, status of the mitigation systems, and operator actions following the EOPs were explicitly modeled in the postulated SGTR. A total of 131 sequences were generated after an SGTR event. Among the 131 sequences, 91 sequences with a frequency sum of 8.5 × 10-6 were stopped either because of low-occurrence frequency (<1 × 10-12) or because the preset mission time was reached (30 000 s after initiating the event). Seven out of the 91 sequences with a frequency sum of 6 × 10-9 were intentionally stopped as a fatal error occurred when RELAP5 was calculating the thermal-hydraulic response.