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House E&C members question the DOE
As work progresses on the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, which will progress through DOE authorization rather than Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing, three members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce have sent a critical letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
The letter demands “information about the DOE and its employees’ dealings with the NRC and its staff” and expresses concern that DOE staff has “broken the firewall” between the departments.
Seth Strege, Serkan Yilmaz, Pradip Saha, Eric P. Loewen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 193 | Number 2 | February 2016 | Pages 259-275
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-120
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Electromagnetic (EM) pumps are a major component in the safe operation of liquid metal–cooled nuclear reactors and can also be used in any other application in which a conductive fluid is being pumped through a system. During the design of an EM pump, it is useful to model its operating characteristics for pump sizing, flow capabilities, and other design checks. The EM pump analysis code known as MATRIX is a prime example of a tool that can be used for such pump modeling. This paper introduces the modernization and capability investigation efforts completed on MATRIX. An output data comparison of the modernized code is made between both the legacy code and the measured EM pump. Further improvement of MATRIX through data analysis and flow correction techniques is explained.