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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.
Jan-Li Wang, Jay F. Kunze
Nuclear Technology | Volume 85 | Number 3 | June 1989 | Pages 285-293
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34250
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The RELAP5 thermal-hydraulic transient code has been applied to a reactor safety analysis of a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) to a reactor with thin fuel plates operating at highly subcooled conditions, ∼75°C below boiling temperatures at operating pressure, 25°C below boiling conditions at atmosphere pressure that occurs immediately following the LOCA. Depressurization is not the critical issue in this case, but plate boiling and reflooding and mixing of vapor and fluid streams are the critical aspects of the calculation. The analysis of the results shows the sensitivity of the calculation to the time periods of the steam “chugging” effects in the water channels between fuel plates. This MOD2 version is the first version with which we found consistency and realism in the results calculated for these very difficult transient conditions.