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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.
Bhagi Purna Chandra Rao, Mandayam Tondanur Shyamsunder, Dipak Kumar Bhattacharya, Baldev Raj
Nuclear Technology | Volume 90 | Number 3 | June 1990 | Pages 389-393
Technical Paper | RELAP/MOD2 / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34402
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One of the major safety concerns about pressurized heavy water reactors is the assurance requirement that the circular garter springs that surround pressure tubes remain at their specified locations. The eddy-current nondestructive method gives a timely warning when a significant displacement of garter springs occurs. The finite element method is used extensively to model eddy-current phenomena. Since a garter spring is an axisymmetric discontinuity, a two-dimensional finite element method is used to optimize eddy-current probe design parameters for the above application.
