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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).
Bhagi Purna Chandra Rao, Mandayam Tondanur Shyamsunder, Dipak Kumar Bhattacharya, Baldev Raj
Nuclear Technology | Volume 90 | Number 3 | June 1990 | Pages 389-393
Technical Paper | RELAP/MOD2 / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34402
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One of the major safety concerns about pressurized heavy water reactors is the assurance requirement that the circular garter springs that surround pressure tubes remain at their specified locations. The eddy-current nondestructive method gives a timely warning when a significant displacement of garter springs occurs. The finite element method is used extensively to model eddy-current phenomena. Since a garter spring is an axisymmetric discontinuity, a two-dimensional finite element method is used to optimize eddy-current probe design parameters for the above application.
