March 2025 - 7 articles
A lot of novel surface treatment technologies have appeared over the last few decades, offering great possibilities for practical use. Modified surfaces have confirmed their successful application in thermal engineering for boiling heat transfer enha...
Nuclear power plant risk assessments rely on conservative deterministic criteria for core-damage determination despite significant advancements in plant response and system analyses. This study proposes a probabilistic approach to determine fuel rod...
Marine reactors have been applied to floating nuclear power plants, naval vessels such as submarines, and civilian ships such as icebreakers. Nuclear-powered shipping is gaining increased interest because of decarbonization goals motivated by climate...
This paper presents the highlights of boiling water reactor (BWR) core physics studies performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as part of a series of studies conducted to compare low-enriched uranium (LEU) with LEU+ fuel. The studies analyzed isot...
A novel concept of cold neutron source employing chessboard or staircase assemblies of high-aspect-ratio rectangular para-hydrogen moderators with well-developed and practically fully illuminated surfaces of the individual moderators is proposed. An...
This research presents a new solution for optimizing the economics of energy produced by a hybrid power generation plant that converts nuclear, solar, and thermal energy into electricity while operating under load-following conditions. To achieve the...
Risk management strives to reach the standards of theoretical systematicity and empirical precision achieved in natural science models. To this end, a set of risk-informed and performance-based standards was developed in the form of statistically val...
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