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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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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Youngseob Moon, Yonghoon Jeong
Nuclear Technology | Volume 208 | Number 9 | September 2022 | Pages 1393-1405
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2021.2018276
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Electrical cables are extensively used in nuclear power plants. Therefore, the fire-retardant performance of electrical cables is generally verified according to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 383 standard, which describes the requirements for flame testing of cables. However, the IEEE 383 standard only stipulates one requirement for the minimum ambient temperature (5°C) surrounding the facilities for the flame test. To analyze the influence of the ambient temperature on the fire-retardant performance of 5cables, flame test experiments were conducted on two types of non–Class 1E cables under several conditions with respect to the seasonal ambient temperatures surrounding the experimental facilities. According to the results, the burning lengths of the cables did not increase in proportion to the increase in the ambient temperature. The longest burning lengths of the cables were obtained from experiments conducted in the autumn season, and not the summer season (with the highest ambient temperature). To investigate these experimental trends, we analyzed the influence of the ambient temperature on the flammability of the cables in terms of the consumption rate of the propane fuel used for the flame tests and the evaporation rate of volatile cable materials. Consequently, it was found that the highest flammability of the cables was observed under autumn conditions, similar to the standard temperature conditions in accordance with the IEEE 1202 standard and in which the volatile materials in the cables did not evaporate more than in the summer condition.