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Donalds, Barnard call for streamlining NRC’s regulatory process
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“To be frank, any emissions-related climate goals are moonshots without nuclear energy, and next-generation nuclear technology is something that the United States can and SHOULD lead on.” So writes U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds (R., Fla.) and Christopher Barnard, vice president of external affairs for the American Conservation Coalition, in an essay published by RealClear Energy.
Good news: Donalds, one of the strongest advocates for nuclear energy in the U.S. House, and Barnard, publisher and coauthor of Green Market Revolution, begin their essay by noting some recent positive developments for nuclear power. They characterize the initial criticality of Vogtle-3, the first new nuclear reactor built in the United States in about 30 years, as “a monumental achievement for the American nuclear industry.” They praise the Biden administration’s allocation of funds to keep established nuclear plants operational.
Dong Yang, Lin Chen, Yongchang Feng, Haisheng Chen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 1 | January 2023 | Pages 74-91
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2102391
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The heat transfer characteristic of supercritical water is one of the crucial issues in SuperCritical Water-Cooled Reactors (SCWRs). The efficiency and safety of the SCWR system are largely dependent on the local heat transfer performance. This paper establishes the numerical model for supercritical water in a long vertical circular loop (inside diameter = 10 mm) and analyzes the flow and heat transfer mechanism during the transition process from subcritical to supercritical states under various heat fluxes (uniform and nonuniform). The results reveal that the difference in thermophysical properties between the boundary layer and the core region is the main reason for the heat transfer behavior, especially during the transition from subcritical to supercritical and liquidlike to gaslike. The flow structure on the buffer layer is a dominating factor for heat transfer deterioration. The cases under variable nonuniform heat fluxes have a higher heat transfer coefficient compared with uniform heat fluxes. But, this will cause large changes of the parameter locally. The dominating factors of heat transfer deterioration under these conditions are also identified.