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60 Years of U: Perspectives on resources, demand, and the evolving role of nuclear energy
Recent years have seen growing global interest in nuclear energy and rising confidence in the sector. For the first time since the early 2000s, there is renewed optimism about the industry’s future. This change is driven by several major factors: geopolitical developments that highlight the need for secure energy supplies, a stronger focus on resilient energy systems, national commitments to decarbonization, and rising demand for clean and reliable electricity.
G. Angerer
Nuclear Technology | Volume 36 | Number 3 | December 1977 | Pages 305-313
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31944
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Cladding relocation upon melting has major consequences on the sequence of events in a transient undercooling accident in a liquid-metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR). The CMOT code developed at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center is used to simulate, by computation, cladding melt-off and blockage formation without and with the possibility of sodium vapor flow diversion. The latter phenomenon is of interest in case of incoherent cladding melt-off within an LMFBR subassembly. It turns out that large waves are generated on the liquid cladding film that quickly slide over a relatively thin slowly moving film. The motion of the waves contributes considerably to the mass transport of cladding film material and to the formation of blockages. The dynamics of these waves is a very important phenomenon of the cladding relocation process. The computed results indicate that cladding blockages in the upper and lower parts of the coolant channel will be established.