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Findings of the ANS Executive Order Expert Advisory Group
On May 23, President Donald Trump signed four Executive Orders (EOs) designed to “usher in a nuclear energy renaissance” by building on federal policies and programs and directing efficiencies in the licensing, siting, development, and deployment of advanced reactor technologies.
In order to evaluate the specific proposals contained in the EOs, a group of experts was convened from various sectors of the U.S. nuclear technology enterprise, under the auspices of the ANS External Affairs Committee, to compare the EOs against existing ANS board-approved Position Statements and to offer constructive input for subsequent implementation by the Trump administration.
The group’s findings and feedback, which were delivered by ANS CEO Craig Piercy to ANS President Lisa Marshall and the Board of Directors, are listed below, grouped by individual EO.
Gee Yong Park, Jinho Park, Poong Hyun Seong
Nuclear Technology | Volume 145 | Number 2 | February 2004 | Pages 177-188
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT04-A3468
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Information on the steam and feedwater flow rates in the secondary loop of nuclear power plants is valuable for thermal efficiency estimation and the related controllers in nuclear power plants. However, the high level of noise in measuring flow rates detracts from the usefulness of this information and forces the operator to exclude the values of the steam and feedwater flow rates when controlling the water level of a steam generator at low operating powers. In recent years, it has been proposed that the wavelet transform can reconstruct a signal that approximates very closely the original signal under a high level of noise. A possible way of differentiating the flow rate from noise is proposed by use of the wavelet noise-reduction or denoising technique and, as one of the potential applications for nuclear power plants, the wavelet transform is incorporated into the water-level controller of steam generators for successful control at low operating powers.