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The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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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.”
Masami Mayuzumi, Takeo Onchi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 93 | Number 3 | March 1991 | Pages 382-388
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A34532
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A method is developed to evaluate the maximum allowable temperature and dry storage time of spent fuel under postulated increasing temperature accident conditions, based on creep strain predicted by an empirical creep equation and the creep strain criterion. The creep equation uses the actual stress as the applied stress due to changes in internal rod pressure, fuel rod shape, and volume ratio of free to pellet fuel. It is shown that this method is more realistic and practical than one based on the life fraction rule and the creep rupture criterion. A sensitivity study of the method indicates that the maximum allowable temperature depends on the temperature increase rate, but not the initial normal storage temperature; the allowable storage time, however, depends on both.