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Nuclear Energy Strategy announced at CNA2026
At the Canadian Nuclear Association Conference (CNA2026) in Ottawa, Ontario, on April 29, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson announced that Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is developing a new Nuclear Energy Strategy for the country. The strategy, which is slated to be released by the end of this year, will be based on four objectives: 1) enabling new nuclear builds across Canada, 2) being a global supplier and exporter of nuclear technology and services, 3) expanding uranium production and nuclear fuel opportunities, and 4) developing new Canadian nuclear innovations, including in both fission and fusion technologies.
Glenn A. Roth, Fatih Aydogan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 182 | Number 1 | January 2016 | Pages 71-82
Technical Paper | Special Issue on the RELAP5-3D Computer Code | doi.org/10.13182/NSE14-149
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The RELAP5-3D code is used to analyze nuclear reactor systems during steady-state and transient operations. Reactor transients that result in significant two-phase flow conditions and phase change, such as reflood scenarios, loss-of-coolant accidents, and others, can tax the current capabilities of the code to model the flow fields. Current codes, such as RELAP5-3D, RELAP-7, and TRACE, have mass, momentum, and energy governing equations for only two fields (liquid and vapor). The representation of two-phase flow phenomena is improved by increasing the number of fields. Therefore, governing equations based on six fields (liquid, vapor, small bubble, large bubble, small droplet, and large droplet) are derived in this paper for implementation in RELAP5-3D.