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NRC nominee Nieh commits to independent safety mission
During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration.
Anton Moisseytsev, Matthew Bucknor, James J. Sienicki
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 1 | October 2022 | Pages S323-S336
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2021.2018925
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Because the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) uses sodium as a primary and secondary coolant, an analysis of postulated sodium leaks that could result in sodium fires is needed for VTR safety analysis. The goals of such an analysis include, among other topics, determination of temperature and pressure loadings on the reactor building from sodium fires. This paper provides a description of sodium spray and pool fire analysis tool development at Argonne National Laboratory for application to the VTR and includes validation against available data from sodium fire experiments.