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Advancements in Designing the DEMO Driver Blanket System at the EU DEMO Pre-Conceptual Design Phase: Overview, Challenges and Opportunities

  • Francisco A. Hernández,
  • Pietro Arena,
  • Lorenzo V. Boccaccini,
  • Ion Cristescu,
  • Alessandro Del Nevo,
  • Pierre Sardain,
  • Gandolfo A. Spagnuolo,
  • Marco Utili,
  • Alessandro Venturini and
  • Guangming Zhou

3 August 2023

The EU conducted the pre-conceptual design (PCD) phase of the demonstration reactor (DEMO) during 2014–2020 under the framework of the EUROfusion consortium. The current strategy of DEMO design is to bridge the breeding blanket (BB) technology...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
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17 Pages

Fast-, Light-Cured Scintillating Plastic for 3D-Printing Applications

  • Brian G. Frandsen,
  • Michael Febbraro,
  • Thomas Ruland,
  • Theodore W. Stephens,
  • Paul A. Hausladen,
  • Juan J. Manfredi and
  • James E. Bevins

7 March 2023

Additive manufacturing techniques enable a wide range of possibilities for novel radiation detectors spanning simple to highly complex geometries, multi-material composites, and metamaterials that are either impossible or cost prohibitive to produce...

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10 Citations
5,990 Views
51 Pages

18 July 2023

Rhodium is one of the scarcest, most valuable, and useful platinum group metals, a strategically important material relied on heavily by automotive and electronics industries. The limited finite natural sources of Rh and exponentially increasing dema...

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9 Citations
4,961 Views
15 Pages

Neutron/Gamma Radial Shielding Design of Main Vessel in a Small Modular Molten Salt Reactor

  • Haiyan Yu,
  • Guifeng Zhu,
  • Yang Zou,
  • Rui Yan,
  • Yafen Liu,
  • Xuzhong Kang and
  • Ye Dai

22 February 2023

The SM-MSR (small modular molten salt reactor) has a good prospect for development with regards to combining the superiority of the molten salt reactor and modularization technologies, showing the advantages of safety, reliability, low economic cost...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,891 Views
17 Pages

Reinforcement Learning-Based Control Sequence Optimization for Advanced Reactors

  • Khang H. N. Nguyen,
  • Andy Rivas,
  • Gregory Kyriakos Delipei and
  • Jason Hou

1 July 2024

The last decade has seen the development and application of data-driven methods taking off in nuclear engineering research, aiming to improve the safety and reliability of nuclear power. This work focuses on developing a reinforcement learning-based...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,230 Views
21 Pages

Plutonium Signatures in Molten-Salt Reactor Off-Gas Tank and Safeguards Considerations

  • Nicholas Dunkle,
  • Alex Wheeler,
  • Jarod Richardson,
  • Sandra Bogetic,
  • Ondrej Chvala and
  • Steven E. Skutnik

18 May 2023

Fluid-fueled molten-salt reactors (MSRs) are actively being developed by several companies, with plans to deploy them internationally. The current IAEA inspection tools are largely incompatible with the unique design features of liquid fuel MSRs (e.g...

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7 Citations
5,808 Views
18 Pages

Gamma-ray Spectroscopy in Low-Power Nuclear Research Reactors

  • Oskari V. Pakari,
  • Andrew Lucas,
  • Flynn B. Darby,
  • Vincent P. Lamirand,
  • Tessa Maurer,
  • Matthew G. Bisbee,
  • Lei R. Cao,
  • Andreas Pautz and
  • Sara A. Pozzi

26 January 2024

Gamma-ray spectroscopy is an effective technique for radioactive material characterization, routine inventory verification, nuclear safeguards, health physics, and source search scenarios. Gamma-ray spectrometers typically cannot be operated in the i...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,478 Views
16 Pages

Bulk Tungsten Fiber-Reinforced Tungsten (Wf/W) Composites Using Yarn-Based Textile Preforms

  • Alexander Lau,
  • Jan Willem Coenen,
  • Daniel Schwalenberg,
  • Yiran Mao,
  • Till Höschen,
  • Johann Riesch,
  • Leonard Raumann,
  • Michael Treitz,
  • Hanns Gietl and
  • Alexis Terra
  • + 4 authors

4 May 2023

The use of tungsten fiber-reinforced tungsten composites (Wf/W) has been demonstrated to significantly enhance the mechanical properties of tungsten (W) by incorporating W-fibers into the W-matrix. However, prior research has been restricted by the u...

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6 Citations
2,245 Views
17 Pages

8 July 2023

Multi-abnormal events, referring to the simultaneous occurrence of multiple single abnormal events in a nuclear power plant, have not been subject to consideration because multi-abnormal events are extremely unlikely to occur and indeed have not yet...

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