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National labs drive nuclear innovations and uprates for the U.S. fleet
As the United States faces surging electricity demand driven by artificial intelligence, data centers, and a push to bring manufacturing back home, Idaho National Laboratory is leading an effort to modernize and expand the nation’s nuclear power capabilities by revamping the Department of Energy’s Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) Program.
Mengnan Li, Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 10-19
Flow boiling one of the most interesting and relevant two-phase flow phenomenon for nuclear reactor operation and safety. The verification of multi-bubble evaporation and condensation model has been conducted and applied to flow boiling simulation. The flow boiling simulations presented in this paper aims to demonstrate the potential of direct numerical simulation approach to study local bubble behavior in unstructured mesh domain using several nucleation sites which exhibit qualitatively different behavior.