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Powering the future: How the DOE is fueling nuclear fuel cycle research and development
As global interest in nuclear energy surges, the United States must remain at the forefront of research and development to ensure national energy security, advance nuclear technologies, and promote international cooperation on safety and nonproliferation. A crucial step in achieving this is analyzing how funding and resources are allocated to better understand how to direct future research and development. The Department of Energy has spearheaded this effort by funding hundreds of research projects across the country through the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). This initiative has empowered dozens of universities to collaborate toward a nuclear-friendly future.
Yuh-Ming Ferng
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 123 | Number 2 | June 1996 | Pages 190-205
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A24182
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The Institute of Nuclear Energy Research (INER) integral system test (IIST) facility is a reduced-height, reduced-pressure test facility constructed at INER that is used to simulate the thermal hydraulics of the Maanshan nuclear power plant (NPP). A small-scaled facility is not capable of simulating all the physical phenomena of an NPP because the behavior of an NPP during accidents is very complicated. Proper scaling then plays an important role in the design of a test facility to ensure the usefulness and applicability of experimental data obtained from a small-scaled facility. However, distortions caused by necessary compromises in the design and construction of a small-scaled test facility exist. The analysis here evaluates whether the inherent distortions in the IIST facility will distort the thermal-hydraulic behaviors of a natural-circulation experiment and influence the usefulness and applicability of the experimental data. Based on the current calculations, the IIST experimental results are found to be partially distorted. Appropriate consideration of and correction for these distortion effects are needed before the results of the IIST natural-circulation experiments can be used to reliably investigate the Maanshan NPP behavior expected by way of an appropriate scale-up procedure.