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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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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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Fabrication milestone for INL’s MARVEL microreactor
A team from Idaho National Laboratory and the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) recently visited Carolina Fabricators Inc. (CFI), in West Columbia, S.C., to launch the fabrication process for the primary coolant system of the MARVEL microreactor. Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA), which manages INL, awarded the CFI contract in January.
Makoto Senoh, Sakae Sugiyama, Masayoshi Sasaki
Nuclear Technology | Volume 72 | Number 3 | March 1986 | Pages 321-327
Technical Paper | Radiation Protection and Health Physics Practices and Experience in Operating Reactors Internationally / Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33770
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Lighting and image-processing techniques for automatic fuel-number recognition in boiling water reactors (BWRs) are described. High-contrast images of fuel numbers are obtained for various types of fuel subassemblies by introducing shallow-angle lighting. Moreover, high-quality binary-valued images can be obtained by multidirectional lighting and character reconstruction techniques. These techniques are experimentally confirmed using test subassemblies. The multidirectional lighting is verified to be superior to unidirectional lighting in terms of its recognition rate and its applicability to an automatic fuel-number recognition system for BWRs.
