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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.
Micheal A. Smith, Richard M. Lell, Gerardo Aliberti, Zhaopeng Zhong, Florent Heidet
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 1 | October 2022 | Pages S71-S82
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2058845
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The Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) that is being designed today is heavily reliant upon the Argonne Reactor Codes (ARC) modeling software for predicting the operational performance of the VTR. Given its usage in the VTR, a set of validation cases appropriate for the VTR must be assembled. The measurements taken in ZPPR-15, Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II), and Fast Flux Test Facility were chosen and analyzed with the ARC software as part of creating the necessary validation basis. The results of the ARC software on the measured data are discussed here, and they demonstrate the accuracy of the ARC software on fast spectrum reactors.
