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2024: The Year in Nuclear—July through September
Another calendar year has passed. Before heading too far into 2025, let’s look back at what happened in 2024 in the nuclear community. In today's post, compiled from Nuclear News and Nuclear Newswire are what we feel are the top nuclear news stories from July through September 2024.
Stay tuned for the top stories from the rest of the past year.
C. H. King, M. S. Ouyang, B. S. Pei, S. C. Lee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 86 | Number 1 | July 1989 | Pages 70-75
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34284
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A new technique is proposed for analyzing neutron noise signals to identify two-phase flow patterns in an experimental reactor. Based on the modeling of neutron signals by autoregressive moving average models via an optimization technique, two-phase flow patterns can be identified by a single index known as the “dynamic signature.” A computer code is set up in an IBM-PC/XT microcomputer by which ∼90% of the experimental cases have been successfully identified among 86 data sets. This technique is recommended for the analysis of boiling water reactor neutron signals to generate a data base for designing a core flow monitoring system. This technique would be useful in understanding thermohydraulic phenomena in an operating power reactor.