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On April 22, 1959, Rear Admiral George J. King, superintendent of the Maine Maritime Academy, announced that following the completion of the 1960 training cruise, cadets would begin the study of nuclear engineering. Courses at that time included radiation physics, reactor control and instrumentation, reactor theory and engineering, thermodynamics, shielding, core design, reactor maintenance, and nuclear aspects.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 152 | Number 1 | January 2006 | Pages 87-97
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE06-5
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We developed a multidimensional GAs Multicomponent Mixture Analysis (GAMMA) code in order to investigate chemical reaction behaviors related to an air ingress accident and the thermofluid transients in high-temperature gas-cooled reactors. The implicit continuous Eulerian technique is adopted for the reduction of a 10N × 10N matrix into an N × N pressure difference matrix and fast transient computation. In the validation with a high-temperature engineering test reactor (HTTR)-simulated air ingress experiment, the onset times of natural convection are accurately predicted within a 10% deviation. Small internal leaks in the HTTR-simulated test facility have been found to significantly affect the consequence of air ingress. In all the simulated cases for a SANA-1 afterheat removal test, the predictions of GAMMA are in a high level of agreement with the measured temperature profiles and are comparable to the results of other codes (TINTE, THERMIX/DIREKT, and TRIO-EF).