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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
Grant L. Hawkes, James W. Sterbentz, Binh Pham
Nuclear Technology | Volume 190 | Number 3 | June 2015 | Pages 245-253
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-73
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new daily as-run thermal analysis was performed at the Idaho National Laboratory for the advanced gas cooled reactor (AGR) test experiment number two (AGR-2) in the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR). This thermal analysis incorporates gas gaps changing with time during the irradiation experiment due to graphite shrinkage resulting from neutron damage. The purpose of this analysis was to calculate the daily average temperatures of each TRISO (tristructural isotropic)–particle fuel compact. A steady-state thermal analysis was performed daily for each capsule with the commercial finite element heat transfer code ABAQUS. These new thermal predictions show the compact fuel temperature dependence on the variable gas gap method. Comparison between measured and calculated temperatures is discussed.
