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Education, Training & Workforce Development
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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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.”
Mankit Ray Yeung, Guo Bing Jiang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 97 | Number 3 | March 1992 | Pages 352-361
Technical Paper | Reactor Operation | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34643
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
An efficient personal computer-based threedimensional reactor core model TRIDA is developed to simulate the dynamics of the reactor for simulator applications. A fast running matrix factorization technique is used to solve the coupled nodal kinetics equations. Calculations for several off-normal and highly asymmetric transients are performed, and some of the results are compared with those of the Arkansas Nuclear One Unit 2 Final Safety Analysis Report. In addition, the computation time of the matrix factorization technique is compared with those of the Gaussian elimination and Jacobi iterative techniques. Results of comparisons are also given.