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A closer look at the initial NLIC selections—Part 2
In January, the Department of Energy announced its new Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus (NLIC) program, inviting states via a request for information to express their interest in hosting a facility supporting work from the front to the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle.
By April, 26 states had expressed interest in hosting such a facility. At the end of July, the DOE signed memorandums of understanding with five states—Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah—to more closely explore the possibilities of state-federal partnerships. These MOUs are not firm commitments from either the federal or state governments. Time will tell which—if any—of the five states develop projects through the program. In the meantime, today, we are taking a close look at what Utah, Idaho, Tennessee can offer in terms of a preexisting nuclear sector that could support new fuel cycle developments.
A. Sarkar, S. K. Sinha, J. K. Chakravartty, R. K. Sinha
Nuclear Technology | Volume 181 | Number 3 | March 2013 | Pages 459-465
Technical Papers | Fuel Cycle and Management/Materials for Nuclear Systems | doi.org/10.13182/NT13-A15803
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A model is developed to predict the in-reactor dimensional changes of the pressure tube materials in Indian pressurized heavy water power reactors (PHWRs) using artificial neural networks (ANNs). The inputs of the ANN are the alloy composition of the tube (concentration of Nb, O, N, and Fe), mechanical properties (yield strength, ultimate tensile strength, and percentage elongation), tube thickness, temperature, and fluence whereas axial elongation is the output. Measured elongation data from various tubes used in Indian PHWRs at Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS 4) are employed to develop the model. A three-layer feed-forward ANN is trained with the Levenberg-Marquardt training algorithm. It has been shown that the developed ANN model can efficiently and accurately predict the axial elongation of pressure tubes. The results show the high significance of Fe concentration and irradiation fluence in determining axial elongation.