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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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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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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College students help develop waste-measuring device at Hanford
A partnership between Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and Washington State University has resulted in the development of a device to measure radioactive and chemical tank waste at the Hanford Site. WRPS is the contractor at Hanford for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
Austin Fleming, Ahmad Al-Rashdan, Colby Jensen, Pattrick Calderoni (INL)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 1150-1153
Fuel-cladding interaction for pressurized water reactors is of interest to the nuclear energy community because of its impact on fuel safety and performance. The complex behavior of fuel-cladding mechanical interaction can result in diameter changes of the cladding. These can be due to internal pressure changes due to fission gas release or fuel pressing directly on the cladding due to fuel swelling. Regardless of the cause of diameter changes, an accurate diameter measurement of the cladding can provide detailed information about the conditions of the fuel and cladding. Other efforts have been made to perform cladding diameter measurements, but contact method have been used with limited applicability to many tests [1]. Electrical impedance based instrumentation is class of measurements that is based on “interrogating” a sensor by providing a current and measuring the voltage (or vise versa) across a system. The parameter of interest is determined by relating it to the measured impedance (calculated from the current and voltage) through the use of an analytic, empirical, or numerical model. These systems are used for a wide variety of measurands in the nuclear industry. They are attractive for in-pile applications because of the potential to be robust to irradiation.