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No impact from Savannah River radioactive wasps
The news is abuzz with recent news stories about four radioactive wasp nests found at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The site has been undergoing cleanup operations since the 1990s related to the production of plutonium and tritium for defense purposes during the Cold War. Cleanup activities are expected to continue into the 2060s.
M. A. Porracchia, M. M. Reocreux, M. C. Rousseau
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 100 | Number 4 | December 1988 | Pages 375-379
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23569
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During the past few years, there has been an increasing effort to understand the behavior of nuclear power plants (NPPs) in normal and abnormal situations. To achieve this goal, large computer codes that allow the description of two-phase flows with sources and sinks of mass and heat have been built in many countries. The analysis of NPP situations often requires a large computation time, so efficient calculational methods are needed to minimize the cost of these studies. Thermal-hydraulic models and calculational methods used in the codes are reviewed. Computational methods and solution procedures involved in some European operating and safety codes are described. Developments concerning code optimization and adaptation of numerical methods to the new supercomputer architectures are discussed.