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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NRC approves V.C. Summer’s second license renewal
Dominion Energy’s V.C. Summer nuclear power plant, in Jenkinsville, S.C., has been authorized to operate for 80 years, until August 2062, following the renewal of its operating license by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a second time.
B. Zhu, Y. P. Li, X. P. Zhu, M. K. Lei (Dalian Univ of Technology)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 45-50
An analysis of elastohydrodynamic lubrication with boundary slippage is conducted for thrust bearing with polymer pad and Babbitt pad based on limiting shear stress model. The pressure distribution in the lubricating film and the elastic deformation of the pad are obtained through the solution of fluid-solid coupling problem by using parameter quadratic programming technique. The results show that the boundary slippage and elastic deformation of thrust pad has significant influence on the load carrying capacity with shifted distribution of pressure maxima. It is implied that, the performance of thrust bearings with respect to the load carrying capacity could be improved if the thrust pad surface could be controlled with slip and no-slip zones.