Pub Date : 2024-06-21DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2024.2343971
Joeun L. Kot, Theodore Thomas, Jason T. Harris
Risk assessment involves analyzing potential accident scenarios to identify hazards and assess associated risk factors. Nuclear safety and security both aim to protect against radiation exposure, b...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-18DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2024.2337282
Zhouxiang Fei, Callum Manning, Graeme M. West, Paul Murray, Gordon Dobie
The conditions of various nuclear power plant facilities are regularly examined through manual inspections. Remote visual inspection is commonly applied and requires engineers to watch lengthy insp...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-17DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2024.2352663
Sri Sudadiyo
The mean time between failures (MTBF) estimation has been intensively investigated in recent years. MTBF can be used to decide on a maintenance strategy or inspection timeline intervals for the RSG...
{"title":"Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process Model for Estimating Mean Time Between Failures of the JE01-AP03 Primary Pump Implemented on the RSG-GAS Reactor","authors":"Sri Sudadiyo","doi":"10.1080/00295450.2024.2352663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2352663","url":null,"abstract":"The mean time between failures (MTBF) estimation has been intensively investigated in recent years. MTBF can be used to decide on a maintenance strategy or inspection timeline intervals for the RSG...","PeriodicalId":19402,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Technology","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-17DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2024.2342184
Markus Preston, Erik Branger, Vitaly Fedchenko, Sophie Grape, Robert E. Kelley, Vaibhav Mishra, Débora M. Trombetta
There exist elements apart from uranium and plutonium that could potentially be used to construct the core of a nuclear explosive device. These belong to the so-called minor actinides (MAs), which ...
{"title":"Methodology for Multiparameter Evaluation of Barriers Against Proliferation of Minor Actinides","authors":"Markus Preston, Erik Branger, Vitaly Fedchenko, Sophie Grape, Robert E. Kelley, Vaibhav Mishra, Débora M. Trombetta","doi":"10.1080/00295450.2024.2342184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2342184","url":null,"abstract":"There exist elements apart from uranium and plutonium that could potentially be used to construct the core of a nuclear explosive device. These belong to the so-called minor actinides (MAs), which ...","PeriodicalId":19402,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Technology","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-17DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2024.2348746
Pongkrit Darakorn na Ayuthya, Jason T. Cassibry
Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) is a highly efficient type of propulsion system that could yield a specific impulse up to 800 s. High-performance NTP allows for possibilities of various mission ty...
核热推进(NTP)是一种高效推进系统,可产生高达 800 秒的比冲。
{"title":"Developing a Three-Dimensional Bubble Dynamics Model for Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Propulsion","authors":"Pongkrit Darakorn na Ayuthya, Jason T. Cassibry","doi":"10.1080/00295450.2024.2348746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2348746","url":null,"abstract":"Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) is a highly efficient type of propulsion system that could yield a specific impulse up to 800 s. High-performance NTP allows for possibilities of various mission ty...","PeriodicalId":19402,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Technology","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-17DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2024.2357917
J. Haroon, E. Nichita
Operating CANDU reactors have the potential to produce significant quantities of molybdenum-99 (99Mo) because of their ability to be refueled online, high thermal neutron flux, and fuel design flex...
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Pub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2024.2326375
Peter Yarsky, Kevin Coyne, Cynthia Taylor, Chad Oelstrom
Risk plus Some Attributes (R + SA) is a method that risk informs the prioritization of inspection activities related to new fuel cycle facility construction. The method uses information available i...
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Pub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2024.2331897
Hansol Kim, Joseph Seo, Yassin Hassan
This study presents a new approach to flow regime classification specifically tailored for typical wire-wrapped fuel assemblies in sodium fast reactors. Historically, the definition and understandi...
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A fire accident is one typical postulated accident in a nuclear fuel cycling facility. Safety-related data on a combustible fire are necessary to evaluate the safety of nuclear fuel cycling facilit...
{"title":"Experimental Study on Combustion Characteristics of Solvent and Fire Behavior During a Solvent Fire at Nuclear Fuel Cycling Facility","authors":"Hongchao Sun, Yiren Lian, Guoqiang Li, Lei Chen, Dongyuan Meng, Shutang Sun, Dajie Zhuang, Jiangang Zhang","doi":"10.1080/00295450.2024.2312723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2312723","url":null,"abstract":"A fire accident is one typical postulated accident in a nuclear fuel cycling facility. Safety-related data on a combustible fire are necessary to evaluate the safety of nuclear fuel cycling facilit...","PeriodicalId":19402,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Technology","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140830908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2024.2329830
Mohamed S. El-Genk, Timothy M. Schriener
Heat rejection radiators of nuclear reactor power systems for space exploration and for planetary surface power are the largest component by volume and mass, depending on the radiator’s design and ...
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