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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
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Reboot: Nuclear needs a success . . . anywhere
The media have gleefully resurrected the language of a past nuclear renaissance. Beyond the hype and PR, many people in the nuclear community are taking a more measured view of conditions that could lead to new construction: data center demand, the proliferation of new reactor designs and start-ups, and the sudden ascendance of nuclear energy as the power source everyone wants—or wants to talk about.
Once built, large nuclear reactors can provide clean power for at least 80 years—outlasting 10 to 20 presidential administrations. Smaller reactors can provide heat and power outputs tailored to an end user’s needs. With all the new attention, are we any closer to getting past persistent supply chain and workforce issues and building these new plants? And what will the election of Donald Trump to a second term as president mean for nuclear?
As usual, there are more questions than answers, and most come down to money. Several developers are engaging with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or have already applied for a license, certification, or permit. But designs without paying customers won’t get built. So where are the customers, and what will it take for them to commit?
Constantine P. Tzanos
Nuclear Technology | Volume 41 | Number 2 | December 1978 | Pages 195-206
Technical Paper | Extraction of Energy From Nuclear Fuels Without Reprocessing to Separate Plutonium / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A32105
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An efficient optimization method has been developed that determines simultaneously beginning-of-cycle (BOC) enrichment distribution and the control rod programming in reactors that lose reactivity during burnup such that (a) reactor criticality and a desired power distribution are satisfied throughout the cycle and (b) all the control rods are withdrawn at end-of-cycle (EOC). The method uses (a) an iterative scheme of uncontrolled burnup calculations [and linear programming (LP) for more than two enrichment zones] to determine a good approximation of the EOC reactor composition that satisfies reactor criticality and the desired power distribution and (b) LP in a reversed burnup process starting from the EOC conditions to determine the control rod programming and the BOC enrichment distribution.
