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G7 pledges support for nuclear at Italy meeting
The Group of Seven (G7) recommitted its support for nuclear energy in the countries that opt to use it at a Ministerial Meeting on Climate in Italy last month.
In a statement following the April meeting, the group committed to support multilateral efforts to strengthen the resilience of nuclear supply chains, referencing the goal set by 25 countries during last year’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai to triple global nuclear generating capacity by 2050.
Samuel E. Bays, Joseph Nielsen, Joshua Cogliati, Charles Wemple
Nuclear Technology | Volume 208 | Number 5 | May 2022 | Pages 811-821
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2021.1980320
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The neutronics software, HELIOS, was validated in 2015 for performing core reload design and safety analysis of the Advanced Test Reactor. However, when HELIOS was benchmarked against historic fission-wire measurements (i.e., zero-power full-core measurements), a statistically resolved calculation-to-measurement bias was discovered. The azimuthal power along each fuel plate computed by HELIOS has consistently shown to underpredict measurements made by fission wires in historic zero-power tests near the fuel element side plates.
It was hypothesized during the HELIOS software validation work that this bias is attributable to local moderation in coolant vents in the side plates axially just above and below the fission wires on the fuel plate edges. This work used detailed MCNP and MC21 models of the side plate vents to test this hypothesis. By comparing the average azimuthal biases between HELIOS and two-dimensional and three-dimensional (3-D) MCNP models and a 3-D MC21 model, it was found that the HELIOS azimuthal bias is not due to the measurement.