Advanced manufacturing technologies for enhancing security in nuclear and radiological materials transport
September 2023
Advanced manufacturing technologies have transformed various industries, including nuclear security areas such as nuclear and radiological transport. This review manuscript describes the intersection...
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Advanced nuclear power engine: A brief overview of gas core reactor for space exploration
June 2023
Space travel requires propulsion with high specific impulse. Gas core reactors using plasma nuclear fuel operate at high temperature (104-105K) and theoretically produce higher specific impulses (2500-7000s)...
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Study on the thermal and geometrical parameters of helical coil once-through steam generator system
2021
Due to the special structure, helical coil once-through steam generators (HCOTSGs) can withstand greater thermal expansion stress, have a larger heat exchange area, and cause the secondary flow phenomenon...
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Numerical simulation and structural optimization of spiral finned tube thermal energy storage
September 2023
Thermal energy storage (TES) has emerged as a promising solution to enhance nuclear safety by passively removing decay heat during reactor shutdown and accidents, thus preventing overheating of the...
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Steady-state thermal fluids analysis for the HTR-PM equilibrium core
2021
The high temperature gas-cooled reactor-pebble bed module (HTR-PM), designed by the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET) of Tsinghua University, is a demonstration project of nuclear...
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Experimental study on flow characteristics of rectangular narrow channel
2020
Plate fuel elements is gradually used in advanced reactor structure design because of its advantages of high fuel consumption and high safety. The flow channel of the plate fuel element is a typical...
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Analysis of radiation shielding effectiveness of hydride and borohydride metals for nuclear industry
March 2023
Hydrogenous materials are of great interest in nuclear industry because of the ability of hydrogen to slow-down neutrons. In comparison with common hydrogenous materials, metal hydrides highly enriched...
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Analysis of thermal hydraulic system code LOCUST V1.2 with ECC thermal mixing test facility
September 2023
The safety injection (SI) system might be put into use, and the coolant at high temperature will mix with the supcooled water under Loss Of Coolant Accident (LOCA). The thermo-hydraulic phenomena associated...
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Calculation of neutron flux and neutron visualization in a spherical reactor core applying a conceptual approach and drawing a comparison with the results obtained by the CITATION code
2021
In this research, a conceptual approach is presented to obtain the neutron flux at a reactor core. A simple spherical reactor core was analyzed by a mathematical model defined by Delphi programming...
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Assessment of radiological safety and emergency response of VVER-1200 type reactor
June 2022
We studied the radiological safety and emergency response of the VVER-1200 type nuclear power plant using the RASCAL 4.3 and HOTSPOT 3.1.2 codes for INES levels 5, 6, and 7 reactor accidents due to...
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Prediction of heat transfer coefficients for steam condensation in the presence of air based on ANN method
June 2023
Artificial neural network (ANN) methods have been gradually used in the field of nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics as new methods to improve accuracy or fast prediction. This study establishes a back...
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Study on iterative algorithm of full plate cross-flow and counter-flow printed circuit heat exchanger for fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature advanced reactor
June 2023
In the concept of Fluoride-Salt-cooled high-Temperature Advanced Reactor (FuSTAR), the Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger (PCHE) is mainly considered in its supercritical carbon dioxide (S–CO2) Brayton...
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Studies on post-dryout heat transfer in R-134a vertical flow
2021
An experimental study of post-dryout heat transfer with the coolant R-134a was performed in a vertical round tube with upward flow. The experiments were conducted in an uniformly heated tube with an...
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Study on startup characteristics of prototype once-through steam generator for China fast reactor
March 2022
Once-through steam generator (OTSG) is a vital heat transfer equipment of China Fast Reactor-600 (CFR-600), and its startup characteristics are of great importance to the safe operation of nuclear power...
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Heat transfer performance of high temperature and high velocity hydrogen flow and analysis of blockage characteristics
December 2022
In the current situation of increasing demand for nuclear heat propulsion in various countries, the heat transfer characteristics of high temperature and high velocity fluid in the flow channel are...
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Research on bubble generation method based on flow control mechanism
Available online 28 August 2023
The method of bubble generation is the key to the application of bubbles, of which the flow control method is widely used because of its low energy consumption and high efficiency, and the flow mechanism...
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Excitation function of neutron induced reaction on isotopes of cadmium (106Cd, 108Cd &110Cd) in the energy range of 13–15 MeV
September 2023
This study focuses on the theoretical calculations of neutron-induced reaction cross-sections on several stable isotopes of cadmium within the energy range of 13–15 MeV. The nuclei produced in this...
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Development and evaluation of fuel performance analysis code FuSPAC
September 2022
The nuclear fuel rod should maintain self-sustainable nuclear fission, as the first safety barrier to prevent the leakage of radioactive products. The fuel rod performance analyses are essential to...
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Determination of the neutron and gamma ray dose rates of the irradiating beam tubes of a pool-type research reactor by using Monte Carlo simulation and experimental detectors regarding radiation protection issues
2021
In this paper, the reactor core, irradiating beam tubes, and radiological shields of a 5 MW open pool type Material Testing Reactor (MTR) are simulated in detail by using the MCNPX 2.6 code and its...
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Phenomena identification Ranking Table (PIRT) study for suppression containment of small modular reactor using new methodology
June 2023
The Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table (PIRT) is a significant method for analyzing the safety of nuclear reactors. It helps researchers identify important phenomena within the reactor, enabling...
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Calculation of flow heat transfer characteristics of liquid gallium
2021
In order to design a more compact small nuclear reactor, liquid metal gallium can be selected as the reactor coolant. Gallium is rarely used in reactor as liquid metal coolant, however, due to its excellent...
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Heat-transfer characteristics of screw tube in one-side high heat load condition for fusion reactor divertor application
2021
In this study, the heat transfer characteristics of one-side heated screw tubes were analyzed using subcooled flow boiling experiments. The experiments were performed until the critical heat flux was...
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IVR design and review of advanced NPPs in China: Issues and perspectives
2021
The In-Vessel Retention (IVR) is an attractive strategy which could avoid the failure of Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) and consequent phenomenon in severe accident of nuclear power plants (NPPs). Most...
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Improvement and evaluation of ATWS Protective Signal and mitigation system for ACPR1000 nuclear power plant
March 2022
At the event of Loss of Normal Feed Water-An Anticipated Transient without Scram (LOFW-ATWS) in ACPR1000 unit, there exists the primary overpressure risk probability when the regulation function of...
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Influence analysis of alloy elements on irradiation embrittlement of RPV steel based on deep neural network
March 2023
Reactor pressure vessel (RPV) is the most important core equipment in PWR. Its service life determines the service life of nuclear power plant and directly affects the economy and safety of nuclear...
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