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Division Spotlight
Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
Meeting Spotlight
Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Supreme Court rules against Texas in interim storage case
The Supreme Court voted 6–3 against Texas and a group of landowners today in a case involving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing of a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, reversing a decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to grant the state and landowners Fasken Land and Minerals (Fasken) standing to challenge the license.
T. Paul Yilmaz, William B. Paschal
Nuclear Technology | Volume 114 | Number 1 | April 1996 | Pages 135-140
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT96-A35229
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
For the past few years, nuclear utilities have been interested in the calculation of transient room temperatures at various station locations following loss of heating/ventilating/air conditioning and/or following station blackout. Transient room temperature analyses invariably involve the use of computer programs utilizing various finite difference schemes. A manual solution method is proposed for room heatup transients, thereby reducing the engineering time spent to obtain the results from tens (occasionally hundreds) of hours to a few hours in many cases.
