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India’s PFBR attains criticality at last
Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed it “a proud moment for India” when on April 6 the 500-MWe, sodium-cooled Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) achieved initial criticality. This milestone, which comes some 22 years after the continually delayed PFBR project began, marks India’s entrance into the second stage of its three-stage nuclear program, which has the ultimate goal of supporting the country’s nuclear power program with its significant thorium reserves.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|10:00–11:45AM EST
Session Chair:
Amir Ali
Alternate Chair:
Guillaume P. Mignot
Session Organizer:
W. David Pointer
Staff Producer:
Erica McGowan (American Nuclear Society)
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Towards Understanding the Thermal-Hydraulic Distortion of using Surrogate Fluids for FHRs Development
Amir Ali (Idaho State University), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth University), Arturo Cabral (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Paper
Prediction of Departure from Nucleate Boiling Using Two-Fluid CFD Model
Danny Ouk (University of Massachusetts at Lowell), Subash L. Sharma (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
STAR CCM+ simulation of the Helium-3 neutron capture reaction effect on the Helium-3 Negative Reactivity Insertion (HENRI) cartridge operation
Cole Leingang (Oregon State University), Guillaume P. Mignot (Oregon State University)
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