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EDF fleet update has encouraging news for U.K. nuclear industry
The EDF Group’s Nuclear Operations business, which is the majority owner of the five operating and three decommissioning nuclear power plant sites in the United Kingdom, has released its annual update on the U.K. fleet. UK Nuclear Fleet Stakeholder Update: Powering an Electric Britain includes a positive review of the previous year’s performance and news of a billion-dollar boost in the coming years to maximize output across the fleet.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 107 | Number 1 | July 1994 | Pages 103-111
Technical Paper | Special on ANP ’92 Conference / Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT94-A35002
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The steam line break (SLB) accident in pressurized water reactors is characterized by a large asymmetric cooling of the core, asymmetric stuck control rods, and large primary coolant flow variations. Because of these space- and time-dependent neutronic and thermal-hydraulic conditions in the core, former SLB analyses that used simplified core models were usually performed with many conservative assumptions. To clarify the complicated behavior of the core, the three-dimensional neutronic code CRONOS-2, the three-dimensional core thermal-hydraulic code FLICA-4, and the system code FLICA-S are completely coupled. The results obtained from the coupled codes indicate that the local thermal-hydraulic feedback effects are important in mitigating neutronic power excursions during SLBs.