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Journal of Nuclear Engineering, Volume 6, Issue 4

December 2025 - 18 articles

Cover Story: Understanding multiphase flows is essential to the design and operation of nuclear power stations. This necessitates the continued development of improved instruments for flow characterisation. Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) grid sensors are an underexplored technology that shows potential to benefit nuclear thermal hydraulics research. An FBG grid sensor consists of an array of FBGs concertinaed into a grid structure and inserted into a fluid, measuring changes in Bragg wavelength to study flow behaviour. This paper presents a new FBG grid sensor design and demonstrates that the sensor can detect bubbles rising in a standing liquid column. This functionality has previously only been demonstrated in flowing loops where decreases in strain are used to detect bubbles. Thus, this paper showcases a new example application of FBG grid sensors. View this paper
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Articles (18)

  • Article
  • Open Access
504 Views
14 Pages

4 November 2025

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, there has been an increased focus on risk assessment and the practical application of its findings to safety enhancement. In particular, dynamic probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) used in conjunctio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
396 Views
13 Pages

30 October 2025

Helically coiled tube heat exchangers (HCT) are recognized as promising solutions for steam generator applications in Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), where compactness and high thermal performance are crucial. The complex geometry of HCTs, however, su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,319 Views
21 Pages

Simulation of NuScale-Like SMR Benchmark with OpenMC Code

  • Abdo Ez Aldeen,
  • Dzianis Litskevich,
  • Christopher Grove,
  • Seddon Atkinson,
  • Anna Detkina and
  • Hasnain Gulzar

27 October 2025

Compared to traditional large-scale reactors, the more heterogeneous, boron-free SMR cores create additional challenges for accurate multiphysics simulations. Therefore, advanced modelling and simulation tools should be used to create high-fidelity,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
806 Views
19 Pages

Evaporation Behavior of Water in Confined Nanochannels Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation

  • Sumith Yesudasan,
  • Mamshad Mohammed,
  • Joseph Marcello and
  • Mark Taylor

23 October 2025

This study presents a molecular dynamics (MD) investigation of water evaporation in copper nanochannels, with a focus on accurately modeling copper–water interactions through forcefield calibration. The TIP4P/2005 water model was coupled with t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
879 Views
22 Pages

15 October 2025

The two-phase flow within a Boiling Water Reactor steam separator is investigated using an interface capturing method. The simulations are focused on resolving the flow around the first pickoff ring which is the highest contributor to steam carryunde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
612 Views
17 Pages

14 October 2025

Helical coiled tube (HCT) heat exchangers (HXs) are used in the nuclear industry, particularly in the residual heat removal systems of nuclear power plants (NPPs) and steam generators for small modular reactors. In this study, a single-phase CFD mode...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,026 Views
22 Pages

13 October 2025

Nuclear energy plays a critical role in global decarbonisation, but its expansion raises concerns about the proliferation risks associated with conventional fuel cycles. This study addresses this challenge by evaluating Am-241 doping as a method to e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
636 Views
13 Pages

AHP-Based Methodological Proposal for Identifying Suitable Sites for the Italian Near-Surface Repository

  • Giambattista Guidi,
  • Anna Carmela Violante and
  • Francesca Romana Macioce

26 September 2025

The selection of suitable sites for the disposal of radioactive waste constitutes a critical component of nuclear waste management. This study presents an original methodological proposal based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), designed to sup...

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