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Growth beyond megawatts
Hash Hashemianpresident@ans.org
When talking about growth in the nuclear sector, there can be a somewhat myopic focus on increasing capacity from year to year. Certainly, we all feel a degree of excitement when new projects are announced, and such announcements are undoubtedly a reflection of growth in the field, but it’s important to keep in mind that growth in nuclear has many metrics and takes many forms.
Nuclear growth—beyond megawatts—also takes the form of increasing international engagement. That engagement looks like newcomer countries building their nuclear sectors for the first time. It also looks like countries with established nuclear sectors deepening their connections and collaborations. This is one of the reasons I have been focused throughout my presidency on bringing more international members and organizations into the fold of the American Nuclear Society.
Dong Li, Rao Hao
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 2 | February 2022 | Pages 209-220
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2021.1968760
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To simulate the complex accident phenomena of a marine reactor, the thermal-hydraulic system code RELAP5 is modified to perform the analysis under ocean conditions. An integrated reactor with a passive residual heat removal system (PRHRS) is modeled by the improved code, and the effects of different ocean motions under a total loss-of-flow accident (LOFA) and a loss-of-heat-sink (LOHS) accident are analyzed with respect to safety characteristics. The results indicate that for LOFA, the primary loop can form an effective natural circulation to cool the core, and for LOHS, the PRHRS can effectively remove the residual heat from the core to ensure the core safety. The results also show that heaving motion accelerates the drop of the first-loop temperature and enhances the heat transfer capacity of the PRHRS. Inclining motion reduces the natural circulation flow in the core. A rolling condition causes fluctuations in the mass flow rate, the variations of which are not strictly sinusoidal, and increasing the rolling period also improves the heat exchange capacity of the PRHRS.