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IAEA looks at nuclear techniques for crop resilience
The International Atomic Energy Agency has launched a five-year coordinated research project (CRP) to strengthen plant health preparedness using nuclear and related technologies.
Wheat blast, potato late blight, potato bacterial wilt, and cassava witches broom disease can spread quickly across large areas of land, leading to severe yield losses in key crops for food security. Global trade and climate change have increased the likelihood of rapid, transboundary spread.
Yassin A. Hassan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 69 | Number 3 | June 1985 | Pages 388-392
Technical Note | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33620
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Comparisons of the predictions of the best-estimate pressurized water reactor TRAC-PF1/MOD1 computer code to data of the General Electric level swell tests were performed. Various time-step sizes and nodalization schemes were employed. With appropriate time-step size, void fraction distributions predicted by TRAC compared favorably with the void fractions inferred from the measured data. Nonphysical oscillations in spatial void profiles were observed when a large time step was used. Comparisons of TRAC predictions with results obtained using three codes of the RELAP family were performed.