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DOE opens funding opportunity for HALEU transport packages
The Department of Energy announced November 19 that up to $16 million is available through a new High-Assay Low-Enrichment Transportation Package funding opportunity to research, develop, and acquire Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing for transportation of HALEU—using new or modified packages.
Hongping Sun, Jian Deng, Dahuan Zhu, Yapei Zhang, Wenxi Tian, Suizheng Qiu, G. H. Su
Nuclear Technology | Volume 206 | Number 10 | October 2020 | Pages 1481-1493
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2020.1713672
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Sodium combustion oxide aerosols are the main carriers of radioactive materials in a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) during sodium fire accidents. Therefore, it is of great significance to simulate aerosol behavior in sodium pool fires to evaluate radioactive source terms in the containment or environment. In this work, a numerical method has been developed to simulate sodium oxide aerosol behavior during sodium pool fires. The Classical Nucleation Theory has been taken into account to simulate gas-to-particle conversion (GPC). The model has been evaluated theoretically in 280 cases with three main parameters: sodium pool temperature, pool diameter, and oxygen concentration. The correlation established by fitting data points is associated with the sodium evaporation rate. The SFA code has been developed based on advanced sodium pool combustion and aerosol models coupled with GPC correlations. In comparison with the experimental data, the code-calculated average atmospheric temperature, airborne aerosol concentration, and particle size are in good agreement with the data, which indicate that the method is reliable and can be applied in code development in the future.