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Is Hydrogen the Future of Nuclear Energy?
Charles W. Forsberg
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 3-10
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6962
Nuclear Production of Hydrogen as an Appropriate Technology
Paul Kruger
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 11-17
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6963
Economics of Meeting Peak Electricity Demand Using Hydrogen and Oxygen from Base-Load Nuclear or Off-Peak Electricity
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 18-26
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6964
An International Overview of Nuclear Hydrogen Production Programs
Gail H. Marcus
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 27-31
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6965
The High-Temperature Electrolysis Integrated Laboratory-Scale Experiment
Carl M. Stoots, James E. O'Brien, Keith Condie, Lisa Moore-McAteer, Gregory Housley, Joseph J. Hartvigsen, J. Stephen Herring
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 32-42
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6966
Analysis Model for Sulfur-Iodine and Hybrid Sulfur Thermochemical Cycles
Nicholas R. Brown, Seungmin Oh, Shripad T. Revankar, Cheikhou Kane, Salvador Rodriguez, Randall Cole, Jr., Randall Gauntt
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 43-55
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6967
Synthesis of Hydrocarbon Fuels Using Renewable and Nuclear Energy
Ken Schultz, S. Locke Bogart, Richard P. Noceti, Anthony V. Cugini
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 56-63
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6968
Nuclear Hydrogen and Captured Carbon Dioxide for Alternative Liquid Fuels
B. D. Middleton, M. S. Kazimi, Min Wah Leung
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 64-75
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6969
Transient Analysis of Sulfur-Iodine Cycle Experiments and Very High Temperature Reactor Simulations Using MELCOR-H2
Sal B. Rodriguez, Randall O. Gauntt, Randy Cole, Fred Gelbard, Katherine McFadden, Tom Drennen, Billy Martin, David Louie, Louis Archuleta, Mohamed El-Genk, Jean-Michel Tournier, Flor Espinoza, Shripad T. Revankar, Karen Vierow
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 76-85
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6970
Regulatory Issues on the Safety Distance Between a VHTR and a H2 Production Facility and an Overpressure Prediction Using Correlations and a CFD Analysis for the JAEA Explosion Test in an Open Space
Hyung Seok Kang, Sang Baik Kim, Min-Hwan Kim, Won-Jae Lee, Hee Cheon No
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 86-100
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6971
Development of GAMMA Code as an Integrated Code Analyzing a Coupled Very High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor and Hydrogen Production Plant
Chang H. Oh, Hong S. Lim, Eung S. Kim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 101-112
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6972
Steam Generator Component Sizing Model in a Combined Cycle of Power Conversion Unit for Very High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor
Chang H. Oh, J. Han, R. Barner, E. S. Kim, S. Sherman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 113-120
Technical Note | Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6973
Thermophoretic Deposition in a Cylindrical Tube: Computations and Comparison with Experiments
Veera R. Gutti, Sudarshan K. Loyalka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 121-133
Technical Papers | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A7399
Evaluation of the Decay Heat Limits in Electrorefiners for Reprocessing Spent Metallic Fuels
Tsuguyuki Kobayashi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 134-145
Technical Papers | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A7400
Analysis of Low-Pressure ECC Injection Bypass of an ABWR During a Feedwater Line Break with RELAP5-3D/K
Thomas K. S. Liang, Chung-Yu Yang, Liang-Che Dai
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 146-155
Technical Papers | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A7401
Low-Power Chirp Spread Spectrum Signals for Wireless Communication Within Nuclear Power Plants
Abdullah Kadri, Raveendra K. Rao, Jin Jiang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 156-169
Technical Papers | Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-3
A Conceptual Process Study for Recovery of Uranium Alone from Spent Nuclear Fuel by Using High-Alkaline Carbonate Media
Kwang-Wook Kim, Dong-Yong Chung, Han-Bum Yang, Jea-Kwan Lim, Eil-Hee Lee, Kee-Chan Song, Kyuseok Song
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 170-179
Technical Papers | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A7403
Integrated Efficiency Test for Pyrochemical Fuel Cycles
S. X. Li, D. Vaden, B. R. Westphal, G. L. Frederickson, R. W. Benedict, T. A. Johnson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 180-186
Technical Papers | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A7404
Decreasing the Detection Limit of Copper for the Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis by Measuring the Activity of 64Cu Isotope from the Annihilation Peak
Nader M. A. Mohamed
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 187-196
Technical Papers | Radiation Measurements and Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A7405
Effect of Mass Flow Rate on the Convective Heat Transfer Coefficient: Analysis for Constant Velocity and Constant Area Case
Piyush Sabharwall, Vivek Utgikar, Fred Gunnerson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 197-200
Technical Note | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A7406
Dynamic Characteristics of Compact Fast-Spectrum Reactors
David I. Poston, Thomas F. Marcille, David D. Dixon, Benjamin W. Amiri
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 204-214
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8835
Conceptual Design of a Lunar Regolith Clustered-Reactor System
John Darrell Bess
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 215-229
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8836
Impact Analysis for Candidate Space Reactor Core Concept Designs for Potential Criticality Study
Seokho H. Kim, George F. Flanagan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 230-239
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8837
System Modeling of Lunar Oxygen Production Using Fission Surface Power: Mass and Power Requirements
Christopher J. Steffen, Jr., Joshua E. Freeh, Diane L. Linne, Eric W. Faykus, Christopher A. Gallo, Robert D. Green
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 240-251
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8838
Dismantlement of the TSF-SNAP Reactor Assembly
Fred J. Peretz
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 252-262
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8839
Fragmentation Calculations for Energetic Ions in Candidate Space Radiation Shielding Materials
L. K. Mansur, Y. M. Charara, S. B. Guetersloh, I. Remec, L. W. Townsend
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 263-272
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8840
Can the Equivalent-Sphere Model Approximate Organ Doses in Space Radiation Environments?
Z. W. Lin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 273-282
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8841
Decision Analysis Based on AHP and GTST Methodologies with Application to CCF-Defense Strategies
Min Chull Kim, Inn Seock Kim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 283-294
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT08-39
Magnetically Channeled IEC Trap Array Fusion Device for Interplanetary Missions
George H. Miley, Hiromu Momota, Linchun Wu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 295-300
Technical Note | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Miscellaneous | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8843