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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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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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Report: New York state adding 1 GW of nuclear to fleet
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has instructed the state’s public electric utility to add at least 1 gigawatt of new nuclear by building a large-scale nuclear plant or a collection of smaller modular reactors, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Inyoung Song, Seung Chang Yoo (UNIST), Taehyun Lee, Kyungha Ryu (KIMM), Ji Hyun Kim (UNIST)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 262-266
Polymeric materials widely used in safety-related equipment are relatively vulnerable to severe environments such as high temperature and radiation environment during the severe accident. Therefore, to ensure the integrity and performance of the safety-related equipment, degradation effect of severe accident on polymer must be investigated.
In this paper, to evaluate the degradation effect of radiation and heat during normal operating condition and severe accident environment, hardness measurement and tensile test were carried out. And FT-IR analysis was conducted to investigate the molecular structure and bonds. The mechanical properties were not changed significantly in pre-aging, normal operating condition. But radiation of severe accident environment significantly affects the mechanical properties of fluoroelastomer and molecular structure, such as C=O formation.