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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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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.”
In Seop Jeon, Sang Hun Lee, Hyun Gook Kang (RPI)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 1730-1739
Severe accidents are the unexpected events that cannot be appropriately mitigated because there are no appropriate mitigation systems or strategies. Based on lessons learned from these accidents, the establishment of all possible mitigation strategies that take into account available mitigation systems is essential. Since nuclear power plant (NPP) have become larger and more complex, systematic approach to develop mitigation procedure is needed. To handle this complexity, multilevel flow modeling (MFM) is suggested and utilized to develop proper mitigation procedures for the NPP. The MFM is a well-known qualitative modeling methodology for representing complex systems at different abstraction levels of specifications. In this study, time-related information is additionally considered to reflect dynamic features to the conventional MFM model. If the time-related information is added to the MFM model, more diverse and quantitative mitigation procedures can be established. For example, in case of the water supply system with the backup tank that is described in this paper, one mitigation procedure that is the use of backup tank can be developed with the conventional MFM method. If time-to-propagate concept is applied, we can develop mitigation strategy as follow: (1) use water in the tank 1 for 3128s then use water in the tank 2 for additional 3303s then use water in the backup tank, (2) use water in the tank 2 for 2757s then use water in the backup tank. These various accident mitigation options help to mitigate accident effectively.