New Challenges in Nuclear Energy Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Considering the anticipated growth of the nuclear industry through the construction and improvement of existing structures, this Special Issue, “New Challenges in Nuclear Energy Systems”, aims to present and disseminate the latest advances regarding the main technical pillars of nuclear power systems: near- and long-term commitments, challenges, and opportunities to increase nuclear production and address our environmental concerns for a green future.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

• Reactor design enhancements: evolutionary designs, innovative, passive, light, and heavy water-cooled reactors as well as molten salt reactors and other advanced reactors.
• Codes verification and validation: transient and accident performance including LOCA and non-LOCA, severe accident analysis, nuclear plant security, and severe natural-disaster-induced accidents.
• Recent advances in experimental thermal hydraulics analysis and testing: experimental techniques and measurements, phenomena identification and ranking, separate and integral effect tests, and so forth.
• Improved code development and qualification: single-/two-phase flow heat transfer, advanced computational thermal hydraulic methods, single-/two-phase computational fluid dynamics.
• Integrated energy systems: innovative hybrid nuclear–renewable energy systems, economically competitive hybrid energy system, capable of electricity production as well as other applications, such as hydrogen production and sea water desalination.
• Material issues related to fuel, cladding, reactor pressure vessel, internal structures, aging issues, environmental effects, and fracture mechanics.
• Reactor dynamics and control.

Dr. Yacine Addad
Dr. Afaque Shams
Dr. Ahmed Al Kaabi
Dr. Muritala A Amidu
Dr. Samuel A Olatubosun
Guest Editors

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