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OECD NEA meeting focuses on irradiation experiments
Members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) joint undertaking gathered from September 29 to October 3 in Ketchum, Idaho, for the technical advisory group and governing board meetings hosted by Idaho National Laboratory. The FIDES-II Framework aims to ensure and foster competences in experimental nuclear fuel and structural materials in-reactor experiments through a diverse set of Joint Experimental Programs (JEEPs).
Peter J. Jensen, Kent D. Richert, Jason Chao
Nuclear Technology | Volume 76 | Number 2 | February 1987 | Pages 290-302
Fourth International Retran Meeting | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT87-A33882
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A RETRAN-02 analysis was performed for a loss-of-feedwater transient without scram for a Westinghouse four-loop plant with Series 51 steam generators. A goal of this study was to use the same plant parameters that were used by Westinghouse in a report issued in December 1979. The primary differences in results from the two studies can be attributed to differences in the two methodologies. Sensitivity of the primary pressure response to steam generator nodalization, turbine trip time, moderator reactivity feedback coefficients, and Doppler reactivity coefficients was also studied.