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Accelerator Applications
The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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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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Virginia utility considers SMRs
Dominion Energy Virginia has issued a request for proposals from leading nuclear companies to study the feasibility of putting a small modular reactor at its North Anna nuclear power plant.
While the utility says it is not a commitment to build an SMR at the site, the RFP is “an important first step in evaluating the technology and the North Anna site to support Dominion Energy customers’ future energy needs consistent with the company’s most recent Integrated Resource Plan.”
Kenny C. Gross, Keith E. Humenik
Nuclear Technology | Volume 93 | Number 2 | February 1991 | Pages 131-137
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A34499
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
It is common practice in nuclear power plants to install redundant sensors to monitor critical physical variables such as pressures, temperatures, and radiation levels. The design and testing of an extremely sensitive component-operability surveillance algorithm based on the sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) are reported. The SPRT technique processes the stochastic components of digitized signals from identical sensors on two or more components in an operating reactor for the detection and annunciation of off-normal operation. Information from the SPRT can provide a reactor operator with early identification of conditions that could lead to plant operational degradation, thus enabling him or her to terminate or avoid events that might challenge safety or radiological performance guidelines. The SPRT enhances plant availability and economics by minimizing unnecessary reactor trips caused in conventional systems by occasional spurious data that might exceed a simple high/low limit check. An example application of the SPRT for the surveillance of primary coolant pump operability in the Experimental Breeder Reactor II is presented.