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3D Printing Possibilities: Additive Manufacturing Impact Limiters for Transportation Casks
With the significant advances in additive manufacturing (AM), otherwise known as 3D printing, Orano Federal Services and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte recently re-examined the capabilities to print impact limiters for transportation casks used to ship spent nuclear fuel. Impact limiters protect transportation casks (sometimes also referred to as transportation overpacks) and their contents during an accident. Impact limiter designs must withstand testing based on a certain significance level of hypothetical accidents, including drops, crushing, fires, and immersion in water.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 17, 2021|12:15–2:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jacob Farber (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Richard Wood (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Staff Producer:
Janet Davis (ANS)
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Development of H∞ Controllers for Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engines
Dan C. Floyd (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), David M. Sikorski (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Richard T. Wood (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Seddik M. Djouadi (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
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A Reduced Order Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine Model as a Research Development Platform
David M. Sikorski (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Richard T. Wood (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
Development of a Non-Nuclear Test Bed for Advanced Control Algorithms
Hayden Sutton (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Richard Wood (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Bart Murphy (ORNL), N. Dianne Bull Ezell (ORNL)
Instrumentation for Microreactor Non-Nuclear Testbed Facilities
Troy Unruh (INL), Joshua Daw (INL), Kelly McCary (INL), Richard Skifton (INL)
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