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Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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RP3C Community of Practice’s fifth anniversary
In February, the Community of Practice (CoP) webinar series, hosted by the American Nuclear Society Standards Board’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policies Committee (RP3C), celebrated its fifth anniversary. Like so many online events, these CoPs brought people together at a time when interacting with others became challenging in early 2020. Since the kickoff CoP, which highlighted the impact that systems engineering has on the design of NuScale’s small modular reactor, the last Friday of most months has featured a new speaker leading a discussion on the use of risk-informed, performance-based (RIPB) thinking in the nuclear industry. Providing a venue to convene for people within ANS and those who found their way online by another route, CoPs are an opportunity for the community to receive answers to their burning questions about the subject at hand. With 50–100 active online participants most months, the conversation is always lively, and knowledge flows freely.
George J. Licina, Dwight R. Springer, Prodyot Roy
Nuclear Technology | Volume 65 | Number 1 | April 1984 | Pages 92-101
Technical Paper | Postaccident Debris Cooling / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33376
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Chemical methods are the primary means for detecting steam generator leaks in liquid-metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) systems. Both hydrogen and oxygen detectors may be used for this purpose. Diffusion of hydrogen through a thin nickel membrane provides the basis for the primary LMFBR leak detection tool. Spurious sources of hydrogen (e.g., from waterside corrosion) and partition of hydrogen between sodium and cover gas are major disadvantages with the use of leak detection systems that incorporate only hydrogen monitors. Electrochemical oxygen meters, which are not subject to these problems, provide a complementary method for leak detection. Hydrogen meters (both diffusion tube and electrochemical designs) and electrochemical oxygen meters have demonstrated the capability to detect water intrusions in sodium test systems.
