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2021 ANS Winter Meeting and Technology Expo
November 30–December 3, 2021
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Neutron noise monitoring during plant operation expedites flexure replacement at Salem-1
The nuclear industry has historically relied on intermittent ultrasonic test and visual inspections of pressurized water reactor components to identify and manage degradation. While this reactive approach has proven to be effective, imagine a scenario in which the degradation could propagate throughout the reactor internals, making a more proactive measure necessary to avoid a major enterprise risk to the plant. Could a utility identify the onset of degradation within the reactor internals during plant operation? If so, could a repair be developed prior to the next refueling outage to prevent additional, cascading degradation? That is exactly the situation that Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) and Westinghouse engineers were able to navigate over the course of the 2019–2020 operating cycle at Salem Unit 1, resulting in a tremendous success for the plant and a historic landmark in the nuclear industry, while earning the team a 2021 Nuclear Energy Institute Top Innovative Practice (TIP) award.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|3:30–5:15PM (4:30–6:15PM EDT)
Session Chair:
Blair Bromley (CNL)
Alternate Chair:
Ching-Sheng Lin (INL)
Session Organizer:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
Staff Producer:
Julie Bry (ANS)
This is a standing RPD session with papers on all reactor analysis topics of contemporary interest.
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Multi-Group Cross Section Library Generation by FRENDY for Fast Reactor Neutronics Calculations
Go Chiba (Hokkaido Univ.), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Kenichi Tada (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.)
Summary
High-Speed Direct Whole-Core Cycle Depletion on Heterogeneous Computing Architectures
Han Gyu Lee (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Namjae Choi (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Junsu Kang (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Han Gyu Joo (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Presentation Video
A Direct Comparison of High-Order and Low-Order Neutronics Calculations of the 165 MWth Xe-100 Reactor
Cihang Lu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Eben Mulder (X-Energy), Sonat Sen (X-Energy)
O-SRS: A Refueling and Shuffling Toolkit for Serpent Core Neutronics Analysis
Firas Abdullatif (The Ohio State Univ.), Dean Wang (The Ohio State Univ.)
NucML: Python-Toolbox for ML-Augmented Nuclear Data Evaluations
Pedro Vicente-Valdez (Univ. of California at Berkeley), Lee Bernstein (Univ. of California at Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. of California at Berkeley)
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