Advanced Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technologies
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2023) | Viewed by 4280
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nuclear power plant safety evaluation; accident tolerant fuels/cladding/coating; two-phase flow experiment and simulation; critical heat flux prediction; severe accident analysis; computational fluid dynamics; deep learning; data science for engineering; STEM education
Interests: nuclear power plant safety evaluation; accident tolerant fuels/cladding/coating; two-phase flow experiment and simulation; critical heat flux prediction; severe accident analysis; computational fluid dynamics; deep learning; data science for engineering; STEM education
Interests: nuclear power plant safety evaluation; accident tolerant fuels/cladding/coating; two-phase flow experiment and simulation; critical heat flux prediction; severe accident analysis; computational fluid dynamics; deep learning; data science for engineering; STEM education
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nuclear energy provides a reliable and sustainable energy supply to the electricity industry as clean energy. This Issue aims to include relevant research to show the processes and recent updates in nuclear technologies. We will address the following topics:
Reactor safety;Reliability;
Thermal-hydraulics;
Nuclear materials;
Artificial intelligence;
Sustainability.
Based on the prediction from all energy agencies that by 2050 more than 50% of energy production on the Earth will come from fossil fuels, significant decarbonization effort is urgently needed in order to achieve a manageable decrease in the Earth’s temperature resulting from global warming. Decarbonizing electricity production via nuclear energy is a part of the solution. Therefore, it is critical to support the deployment of current and advanced nuclear technologies if the decarbonization efforts are to be reached. To respond to the need for decarbonization, the U.S. Department of Energy leads a series of research works on the development of nuclear energy science and technology, and a huge number of national laboratories, universities, and industries are involved in this process.
The research topic of advanced Sustainable nuclear energy technologies aims to publish the relevant research regarding the most advanced and timely nuclear technology worldwide. This research topic embraces advanced nuclear fuel development, nuclear fuel cycles, nuclear materials, advanced nuclear design, nuclear reactor physics, nuclear waste management, nuclear thermal hydraulics, and nuclear safety. In this research topic, all research works that are relevant to nuclear power generation and nuclear engineering are welcomed. Other research scopes not included above but which are related to the theme are also encouraged for submission.
Dr. Jun Wang
Guest Editor
Dr. Yafei Wang
Dr. Jianqi Xi
Co-Guest Editors
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Keywords
- clean energy
- safety
- sustainability
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