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IAEA again raises global nuclear power projections
Noting recent momentum behind nuclear power, the International Atomic Energy Agency has revised up its projections for the expansion of nuclear power, estimating that global nuclear operational capacity will more than double by 2050—reaching 2.6 times the 2024 level—with small modular reactors expected to play a pivotal role in this high-case scenario.
IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi announced the new projections, contained in the annual report Energy, Electricity, and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2050 at the 69th IAEA General Conference in Vienna.
In the report’s high-case scenario, nuclear electrical generating capacity is projected to increase to from 377 GW at the end of 2024 to 992 GW by 2050. In a low-case scenario, capacity rises 50 percent, compared with 2024, to 561 GW. SMRs are projected to account for 24 percent of the new capacity added in the high case and for 5 percent in the low case.
Mayank Goswami, Anupam Saxena, Prabhat Munshi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 176 | Number 2 | February 2014 | Pages 240-253
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-26
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Iterative algorithms for computerized tomography reconstruction employ a variety of grids, interpolation techniques, and solution procedures. A new projection-intersection (PI) grid is presented in this work. It comprises all the intersection points between the projection rays passing through the object. A few advantages include (a) a user-independent discretization process and (b) a reduction in reconstruction error caused by nonparticipating nodes. Computerized tomography reconstruction results by PI are compared with existing conventional grids. The multiplicative algebraic reconstruction technique (MART) and entropy maximization are used as solution techniques. We note that for simulated data, the PI grid gives better results when compared with the square-pixel grid. Two different sets of experimental data (obtained previously for a mercury-nitrogen flow loop and one with a known specimen with a static known profile) are processed with the above-mentioned options. A basic theoretical model (but experimentally correlated) is also used to verify the void reference level. Computerized tomography results for experimental projection data indicate a trend similar to the previous MART results, but a major difference is visible in the void-fraction distributions. This fact is important, as heat transfer coefficients are strongly dependent on the distribution of voids.