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Fusion Energy
This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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State legislation: Delaware delving into nuclear energy possibilities
A bill that would create a nuclear energy task force in Delaware has passed the state Senate and is now being considered in the House of Representatives.
S. Benhamadouche, M.-C. Gauffre, Y. Fournier (EdF)
Proceedings | Advances in Thermal Hydraulics 2018 | Orlando, FL, November 11-15, 2018 | Pages 636-643
A high fidelity wall-resolved Large Eddy Simulation has been performed for the flow through a guide plate of a Control Rod Guide Assembly (CRGA) at a hydraulic Reynolds number of 10,000. The computational mesh contains more than 1 billion computational cells and the simulation is run over six flow passes, which corresponds to almost 1 million time steps. The pressure forces are computed for all the rods and their average and rms values analyzed. This simulation can be either used to validate coarser LES/URANS computations, to understand the origin of physical phenomena such as deformations and vibrations or to model the pressure load along a rod.
