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The objectives of MSTD are: promote the advancement of materials science in Nuclear Science Technology; support the multidisciplines which constitute it; encourage research by providing a forum for the presentation, exchange, and documentation of relevant information; promote the interaction and communication among its members; and recognize and reward its members for significant contributions to the field of materials science in nuclear technology.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Feinstein Institutes to research novel radiation countermeasure
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, home of the research institutes of New York’s Northwell Health, announced it has received a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the potential of human ghrelin, a naturally occurring hormone, as a medical countermeasure against radiation-induced gastrointestinal syndrome (GI-ARS).
Kyung Mo Kim, In Guk Kim, Yeong Shin Jeong, In Cheol Bang (UNIST)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 1161-1167
Guarantee of the diversity by installation of additional safety system, having different working principle from the existing systems, could mitigate the suggested issues on the passive safety systems. Hybrid control rod-heat pipe, which is a passive decay heat removal device combining the functions of heat pipe and control rod, was proposed by UNIST in Republic of Korea as a passive safety system improving the diversity of passive safety in small modular reactors. It was designed to perform both functions of decay heat removal and reactivity control simultaneously. From the performance analysis, it was found that the designed hybrid control rod has sufficient decay heat removal capacity and reactivity worth. Additionally, hydraulic control rod drive mechanism, which controls the movement of control rod by hydraulic resistance, was designed to achieve fully-passive operation of the hybrid control rods eliminating the malfunction of CRDM owing to electromagnetic signal error. Based on the feasibility study for the concept of hybrid control rod and hydraulic control rod drive mechanism, detailed design of passive in-core cooling system (PINCs) for SMR consisting of hybrid control rods, hydraulic control rod drive mechanism, and heat sinks, was constructed considering the operations of PINCs during normal and accident conditions of reactor.