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2024: The Year in Nuclear—April through June
Another calendar year has passed. Before heading too far into 2025, let’s look back at what happened in 2024 in the nuclear community. In today's post, compiled from Nuclear News and Nuclear Newswire are what we feel are the top nuclear news stories from April through May 2024.
Stay tuned for the top stories from the rest of the past year.
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Impact of Wind Velocity on the Performance of the RVACS Decay Heat Removal System
Constantine P. Tzanos
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 1 | July 1997 | Pages 1-10
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A35390
Turbulence Prediction in Two-Dimensional Bundle Flows Using Large-Eddy Simulation
Yassin A. Hassan, Wael A. Ibrahim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 1 | July 1997 | Pages 11-28
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A35391
Simulation of Loss of the Residual Heat Removal System of BETHSY Integral Test Facility Using CATHARE Thermal-Hydraulic Code
Yassin A. Hassan, Andrey A. Troshko
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 1 | July 1997 | Pages 29-37
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A35392
Modeling Gamma-Ray Dose Rate from a Spent Pressurized Water Reactor Fuel Assembly
Ahmet Bozkurt, Nicholas Tsoulfanidis
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 1 | July 1997 | Pages 38-47
Technical Paper | Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A35393
Hypermedia Integration of Information Resources for Nuclear Plant Operations
Lefteri H. Tsoukalas, Robert E. Uhrig
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 1 | July 1997 | Pages 48-62
Technical Paper | Reactor Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A35394
A Personal Computer-Based On-Line Signal Validation System for Nuclear Power Plants
Ali S. Erbay, Belle R. Upadhyaya
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 1 | July 1997 | Pages 63-75
Technical Paper | Reactor Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A35395
Survey of Artificial Intelligence Methods for Detection and Identification of Component Faults in Nuclear Power Plants
Jaques Reifman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 1 | July 1997 | Pages 76-97
Technical Paper | Reactor Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A35396
Modification of Condensation Heat Transfer Model of RELAP5/MOD3.1 for the Simulation of Secondary Condensers
Hyoung Tae Kim, Hee Cheon No
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 1 | July 1997 | Pages 98-104
Technical Note | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A35397
Two-Group, Flux-Coupled Xenon Oscillation Model with an Equation System of Axial Difference Parameters
Jae Seung Song, Nam Zin Cho
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 2 | August 1997 | Pages 105-111
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35379
Core Makeup Tank Behavior Observed During the Rosa-AP600 Experiments
Taisuke Yonomoto, Masaya Kondo, Yutaka Kukita, L. Scott Ghan,, Richard R. Schultz
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 2 | August 1997 | Pages 112-122
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35380
Advanced Plutonium Fuel Assembly: An Advanced Concept for Using Plutonium in Pressurized Water Reactors
André Puill, Jean Bergeron
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 2 | August 1997 | Pages 123-140
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35381
Some Specific Aspects of Homogeneous Americium-and Neptunium-Based Fuels Transmutation Through the Outcomes of the Superfact Experiment in Phénix Fast Reactor
Claude Prunier, François Boussard, Lothar Koch, Michel Coquerelle
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 2 | August 1997 | Pages 141-148
Technical Paper | Enrichment and Reprocessing System | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35382
Compatibility of the Ultraviolet Light-Ozone System for Laundry Waste Water Treatment in Nuclear Power Plants
Toshiaki Matsuo, Takashi Nishi, Masami Matsuda, Tatsuo Izumida
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 2 | August 1997 | Pages 149-157
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35383
Corflow: A Code for the Numerical Simulation of Free-Surface Flow
Ralf Wittmaack
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 2 | August 1997 | Pages 158-180
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35384
Signal Validation Using an Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Inference System
J. Wesley Hines, Darryl J. Wrest, Robert E. Uhrig
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 2 | August 1997 | Pages 181-193
Technical Paper | Reactor Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35385
Melcor Self-Initialization Algorithm for Pressurized Water Reactors and Its Importance in Accident Analysis
Chun-Sheng Chien, Shih-Jen Wang, Te-Chuan Wang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 2 | August 1997 | Pages 194-200
Technical Note | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35386
Effect of Operating Cycle and Fuel Burnup on Isotopic Composition and Decay Characteristics of Irradiated Mtr-Type Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel
Liaquat Ali Khan, Nasir Ahmad
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 2 | August 1997 | Pages 201-210
Technical Note | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35387
Maximum Heat Transfer to Metallic-Liquid Flows from a Cluster of Vertical, Parallel-Plate Channels Heated Symmetrically
Antonio Campo, Gong Li
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 2 | August 1997 | Pages 211-216
Technical Note | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35388
Implications of the Rosa/AP600 High- and Intermediate-Pressure Test Results
Louis M. Shotkin, Yutaka Kukita
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 3 | September 1997 | Pages 217-234
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35399
RELAP5 Analysis of Gravity-Driven Core-Cooling Experiments with Pactel
Reijo Munther, Juhani Vihavainen, Heikki Kalli, Jyrki Kouhia, Vesa Riikonen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 3 | September 1997 | Pages 235-243
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35400
Effect of RELAP5/MOD3.2 User Options on Calculated Results
John D. Burtt, Louis M. Shotkin, Joseph L. Staudenmeier
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 3 | September 1997 | Pages 244-268
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35401
Feature Extraction for Artificial Neural Network Application to Fabricated Nuclear Fuel Pellet INSPECTION
Shahla Keyvan, Mark L. Kelly, Xiaolong Song
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 3 | September 1997 | Pages 269-275
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35402
Parallel Adaptive Evolutionary Algorithms for Pressurized Water Reactor Reload Pattern Optimizations
Joachim K. Axmann
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 3 | September 1997 | Pages 276-291
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35403
Introduction to Special Section on Nuclear Criticality Safety
Robert Busch
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 3 | September 1997 | Page 293
doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35404
Criticality Safety Evaluation of Shutdown Diffusion Cascade Coolers
Lane S. Paschal, C. L. Bentley,† Michael E. Dunn,‡ S. Goluoglu, R. E. Pevey, H. L. Dodds
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 3 | September 1997 | Pages 295-305
Technical Paper | Nuclear Criticality Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35405
Development of a Continuous Energy Version of Keno V.a
Michael E. Dunn, C. L. Bentley, † S. Goluoglu, Lane S. Paschal‡, L. M. Petrie, H. L. Dodds
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 3 | September 1997 | Pages 306-313
Technical Paper | Nuclear Criticality Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35406