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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.
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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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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Hinkley Point C gets over $6 billion in financing from Apollo
U.S.-based private capital group Apollo Global has committed £4.5 billion ($6.13 billion) in financing to EDF Energy, primarily to support the U.K.’s Hinkley Point C station. The move addresses funding needs left unmet since China General Nuclear Power Corporation—which originally planned to pay for one-third of the project—exited in 2023 amid U.K. government efforts to reduce Chinese involvement.
Nicolò Badodi, Antonio Cammi, Marica Eboli, Daniele Martelli, Alessandro Del Nevo
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 10 | October 2023 | Pages 1508-1522
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2188984
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A major safety concern addressed during the design of the water-cooled lead-lithium (PbLi) breeding blanket (BB) is represented by an in-box loss-of-coolant accident, where high-pressure water is supposed to interact with PbLi inside the BB. Code development activities are being carried out to create the needed tools for the safety analysis of these systems in the case of incidental scenarios, which are supported by extensive experimental campaigns that aim at providing data for SIMMER code verification and validation (V&V). In this regard, the present work aims at presenting the dataset generated during the Series D experimental campaign performed at the LIFUS5/Mod3 facility operated at the ENEA Brasimone Research Centre. This is a separate effect facility able to simulate the mixing of water and PbLi alloy in conditions of temperature and pressure similar to the ones encountered by the system during nominal operation and to acquire significant data on all the relevant thermochemical parameters. Moreover, a preliminary analysis of the data has been performed to critically determine the quality of the data and to identify possible issues in the experimental process. In the end, the foreseen extension of the experimental work is described, as well as the foreseen application of the acquired data in the code V&V activities.