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Excelsior University student section awarded community education grant
The American Nuclear Society Student Section at Excelsior University in Albany, N.Y., was awarded a $5,000 grant from the ANS Student Section Strategic Fund initiative for its program, Empowering Tomorrow’s Nuclear Innovators: A Collaborative Approach to Nuclear Technology Education and Awareness.
Peter H. Royl, James E. Cahalan, Günter Friedel, Günter Kussmaul, Jean Moreau, Maurice Perks, Roald A. Wigeland
Nuclear Technology | Volume 97 | Number 2 | February 1992 | Pages 198-211
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34616
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In a cooperative effort among European and U.S. analysts, an assessment of the comparative safety performance of metal and oxide fuels during accidents in a 3500-MW(thermal), pool-type, liquid-metal-cooled reactor (LMR) is performed. The study focuses on three accident initiators with failure to scram: the unprotected loss-of-flow (ULOF), the unprotected transient overpower, and the unprotected loss-of-heat-sink (ULOHS). Core designs with a similar power output that have been previously analyzed in Europe under ULOF accident conditions are also included in this comparison. Emphasis is placed on identification of design features that provide passive, self-limiting responses to postulated accident conditions and quantification of relative safety margins. The analyses show that in ULOF and ULOHS sequences, metal-fueled LMRs with pool-type primary systems provide larger temperature margins to coolant boiling than do oxide-fueled reactors of the same design.