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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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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
G. Nash
Nuclear Technology | Volume 51 | Number 1 | November 1980 | Pages 13-20
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32551
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Measurements of steam bubble velocities and voidage have been made in the relatively small Core B of the Lingen boiling water reactor. The results of axial scanning in one radial position have produced experimental values of slip ratio, power (from a traveling in-core probe), voidage, and coolant mean density over the core height for this position. This one set of distributions has enabled us to test current U.K. Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) models of subcooled boiling and slip ratio against experiment. From the comparisons, it appears that we can predict the onset of voiding well. Of four slip options tested, the current one used by UKAEA computer codes HAMBO and JOSHUA (Bankoff-Jones) predicts too high a slip ratio. A closer fit to experiment comes from the new Bryce flow-dependent slip option. Any changes in the modeling must be checked, however, with coupled thermal-hydraulics/neutronics computations.