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Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
The mission of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) is to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology while simultaneously preventing the diversion and misuse of nuclear material and technology through appropriate safeguards and security, and promotion of nuclear nonproliferation policies. To achieve this mission, the objectives of the NNPD are to: Promote policy that discourages the proliferation of nuclear technology and material to inappropriate entities. Provide information to ANS members, the technical community at large, opinion leaders, and decision makers to improve their understanding of nuclear nonproliferation issues. Become a recognized technical resource on nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security issues. Serve as the integration and coordination body for nuclear nonproliferation activities for the ANS. Work cooperatively with other ANS divisions to achieve these objective nonproliferation policies.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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Vogtle-3 shuts down for valve issue
One of the new Vogtle units in Georgia was shut down unexpectedly on Monday last week for a valve issue that has since been investigated and repaired. According to multiple local news outlets, Georgia Power reported on July 17 that Unit 3 was back in service.
Southern Company spokesperson Jacob Hawkins confirmed that Vogtle-3 went off line at 9:25 p.m. local time on July 8 “due to lowering water levels in the steam generators caused by a valve issue on one of the three main feedwater pumps.”
Joseph L. Bottini, Sabrina Hammouti, David Ruzic, Caleb S. Brooks (Univ of Illinois)
Proceedings | Advances in Thermal Hydraulics 2018 | Orlando, FL, November 11-15, 2018 | Pages 440-448
Boiling heat transfer is an effective method for transferring heat from system components, enabling high heat transfer rates from minimal surface superheats. While it is effective, two-phase heat transfer offers added complexities to single-phase heat transfer caused by the addition of deformable interfaces, dissimilar fluid properties, and phase transition. The critical heat flux (CHF) marks the upper limit of safe operation for many boiling heat transfer systems, and its prediction is essential to ensure safe operation. While much effort has been devoted to studying boiling heat transfer and CHF, the characteristics of the surface, such as wettability and roughness, influence the boiling heat transfer, but are not well understood. Heat transfer surfaces of varying wettability and roughness have been prepared, characterized, and subjected to flow experiments up to CHF to study the role the surface properties have in flow boiling heat transfer. The surfaces were prepared using a high-power laser to texture the surface altering the wettability and roughness. Increasing the roughness and decreasing the wettability are found to have competing effects on both the boiling curves and the CHF points. The onset of nucleate boiling (ONB) points are delayed for the lesswetting surfaces, and the CHF value is lower. An increase in roughness for the textured surface causes earlier ONB and increases CHF, but the CHF values are lower than for the original, polished surface. The roughness and wettability are demonstrated to be influential properties on both the boiling heat transfer and the CHF point, and are not well captured by the existing CHF models.