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NEI chief executive highlights “unlimited potential” for nuclear in state of the industry address
Korsnick
In the Nuclear Energy Institute’s annual State of the Nuclear Energy Industry report, NEI president and CEO and Maria Korsnick expressed optimism about the nuclear industry and she issued a call to action.
Her address was part of NEI’s Nuclear Energy Policy forum. The forum, being held in Washington, D.C., on May 20 and May 21, brings together industry leaders, policy stakeholders, and clean energy experts to discuss nuclear advocacy. Korsnick’s remarks focused on the private capital flowing into the industry, progress on regulatory reform and new nuclear technology, and how the U.S. is trying to take the lead on the global nuclear stage.
“We are here at an unprecedented time in our industry history,” Korsnick said. “I’m proud to say that the nuclear industry has a future of unlimited potential.”
R. E. Williford, D. D. Lanning, C. L. Mohr
Nuclear Technology | Volume 56 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 340-350
Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A32862
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An alternate thermal-mechanical behavior model for cracked UO2 pelletized fuel is presented. It is recognized that fuel cracking and relocation cause some of the initial pellet-cladding gap (the “free area”) to be moved into the fuel in the form of cracks. The introduction of this free area into the fuel causes the fuel effective thermal conductivity and effective elastic moduli to be simultaneously reduced to values significantly less than laboratory data for solid pellets. Hooke’s Law and a crack compliance model are used to deduce the effective fuel conductivity and moduli from simultaneous in-reactor measurements of rod power, fuel center temperature, and cladding elongation. The fuel-cladding “gap” is considered as another “crack,” and is also described by the crack compliance model, which predicts that there is always some finite amount of fuel-cladding contact. The primary thermal mechanical feedback mechanism is found to be due to crack closure effects on fuel effective thermal conductivity, rather than gap closure effects on gap conductance.
