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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
Hyun-Jong Paik, Patrick Raymond
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.
