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Materials Science & Technology
The objectives of MSTD are: promote the advancement of materials science in Nuclear Science Technology; support the multidisciplines which constitute it; encourage research by providing a forum for the presentation, exchange, and documentation of relevant information; promote the interaction and communication among its members; and recognize and reward its members for significant contributions to the field of materials science in nuclear technology.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Dan Zhang (Nuclear Power Inst of China)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 247-251
CSR1000 (China supercritical water reactor, 1000MWe) was developed by NPIC, as BWR, the pressure vessel’s reactor and directly circulate loop was adopted, however, the coolant will encounter double flow pass in the reactor. The passive engineering safety feature was adopted and the reactor residual heat will be removed by natural circulation of coolant. As above character, loss of feed water or loss of offsite power will cause completely loss of forced flow accident, the flow in first pass of core will encounter flow inversion during this course, these factor make the LOFA(Loss Of forced Flow Accident) become one of the most limiting accident in CSR1000. The LOFA was analyzed by APROS. The result shows, during the short time of LOFA, the passive operation of HFT will mitigate the accident, and during long term, the passive residual heat removal system will function and maintain the core within the safety state.