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World Bank, IAEA partner to fund nuclear energy
The World Bank and the International Atomic Energy Agency signed an agreement last week to cooperate on the construction and financing of advanced nuclear projects in developing countries, marking the first partnership since the bank ended its ban on funding for nuclear energy projects.
J. J. Pyun, K. A. Williams
Nuclear Technology | Volume 46 | Number 3 | December 1979 | Pages 411-421
Technical Paper | Nuclear Power Reactor Safety / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32347
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The Transient Reactor Analysis Code (TRAC) is being developed at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory as an advanced “best-estimate” computer program for analyses of postulated accidents in light water reactors. As a part of the TRAC verification effort, a posttest analysis of loss-of-fluid test (LOFT) non-nuclear test L1-4 has been conducted. The results of this analysis show that TRAC accurately predicts the thermal-hydraulic response of the entire LOFT system, including the delayed effects from emergency core coolant injection into the cold leg.