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Verification and Geometry Optimization of a One Fluid Molten Salt Reactor (OFMSR) with Fixed Volume 具有固定容积的单流体熔盐反应堆（OFMSR）的验证和几何优化

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Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Pub Date : 2024-01-10 DOI: 10.1115/1.4064465

R. A. P. Dwijayanto, Harun Ardiansyah, A. W. Harto

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The Transfer of Xenon-135 to Molten Salt Reactor Graphite 氙-135 向熔盐反应堆石墨的转移

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Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Pub Date : 2024-01-10 DOI: 10.1115/1.4064464

Terry Price, Ondrej Chvala

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Technical Brief: Safeguardability Analysis of a Molten Salt Sampling System Design 技术简介：熔盐取样系统设计的保障性分析

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Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.1115/1.4064343

M. Harkema, Steven Krahn, Paul Marotta

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Molten Salt Pump Journal-Bearings Dynamic Characteristics Under Hydrodynamic Lubrication Conditions 流体动力润滑条件下熔盐泵轴颈轴承的动态特性

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Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.1115/1.4064336

Yuqi Liu, Minghui Chen, S. Che, Adam Burak

{"title":"Molten Salt Pump Journal-Bearings Dynamic Characteristics Under Hydrodynamic Lubrication Conditions","authors":"Yuqi Liu, Minghui Chen, S. Che, Adam Burak","doi":"10.1115/1.4064336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064336","url":null,"abstract":"A reliable high-temperature molten salt pump is critical for the development of Fluoride-salt-cooled High-temperature Reactors (FHRs). By supporting the rotating journal, the suitable journal bearing can ensure that the high-temperature molten salt pump runs smoothly and efficiently in the high-temperature fluoride salt over a long period of time. However, many bearing candidates served well for only a short period and experienced several issues. Moreover, the molten salt pump journal misalignment or not is a key factor for the molten salt pump's long-term steady running. In the long-term operation, a misalignment in the journal bearing can result in vibrations and excessive wear on the bearing surface of the molten salt pump. The journal bearing dynamic characteristics is a meaningful sign to accurately assess the journal misalignment. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the detailed journal bearing dynamic behavior under the high-temperature hydrodynamic fluoride salt lubrication conditions for FHR applications. This study's small amplitude vibration is superimposed on a steady-running journal bearing condition. A FORTRAN 90 program has been written for the journal bearing dynamic behavior analysis. The numerical results are validated with experimental data from the literature. The validated program was employed to predict the dynamic coefficients of high-temperature fluoride salt hydrodynamic lubricated journal bearing various Sommerfeld numbers. This study evaluating the journal bearing dynamic coefficients for molten salt pumps provides guidelines that are helpful for designing molten salt primary pumps.","PeriodicalId":16756,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science","volume":"24 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139168605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An Improved Heat Flux Partitioning Model of Nucleate Boiling Under Saturated Pool Boiling Condition 饱和池沸腾条件下核沸腾的改进热通量分配模型

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Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.1115/1.4064337

Mingfu He, Minghui Chen

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Design and Analysis of a Free-Piston Stirling Engine for Microreactor Applications 设计和分析用于微反应器的自由活塞式斯特林发动机

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Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.1115/1.4064335

Phat Doan, Minghui Chen

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A Monte Carlo Fuel Assembly Model Validation Adopting Post Irradiation Experiment Dataset 采用辐照后实验数据集的蒙特卡罗燃料组件模型验证

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Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1115/1.4064308

Lorenzo Loi, A. Cammi, S. Lorenzi, C. Introini

{"title":"A Monte Carlo Fuel Assembly Model Validation Adopting Post Irradiation Experiment Dataset","authors":"Lorenzo Loi, A. Cammi, S. Lorenzi, C. Introini","doi":"10.1115/1.4064308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064308","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Within a hybrid energy system, it is fundamental to have accurate and reliable computational tools to predict the plants; behaviour under different operating conditions; compared to other energy sources, analysis methods for nuclear systems must provide detailed information on reactor criticality and fuel evolution. Thanks to the advancements in computational hardware, using three-dimensional codes to obtain a local description of the reactor core has now become feasible both for deterministic codes and for Monte Carlo (MC) codes. Those computational methods must be compared with experimental measurements to assess their reliability. For this reason, the 3D MC code SERPENT is currently being validated for Light Water Reactor (LWR) fuel cycle simulations. This work will compare the isotopic concentrations measured in a Post Irradiation Experiment and the results of the MC routine, examining the Takahama-3 assembly test case. From literature reports, roughly 35 nuclide species have been measured at different axial locations by destructive analysis following several radiochemical techniques. A sensitivity analysis to evaluate the impact of design features on the results was carried out investigating the cross-section libraries, the simulation time discretisation and the imposition of an axial time-varying temperature. During the process, systematic sources of geometry-related errors were analysed as well. Overall, the model showed good agreement with the experimental data under an acceptable error threshold. The sensitivity studies also showed how the prediction capability could be increased up to +6%, adopting a realistic temperature mesh for the fuel instead of a uniform temperature approach.","PeriodicalId":16756,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science","volume":" 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138962035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Public-Private Partnering in Nuclear Reactor Development - Historical Review and Implications for Today 核反应堆开发中的公私合作--历史回顾及对当今的启示

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Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Pub Date : 2023-12-09 DOI: 10.1115/1.4064233

Steven Krahn, Andrew Sowder

{"title":"Public-Private Partnering in Nuclear Reactor Development - Historical Review and Implications for Today","authors":"Steven Krahn, Andrew Sowder","doi":"10.1115/1.4064233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064233","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The dominant nuclear reactor technologies that comprise the current global operating fleet were developed and deployed over a relatively short, mid-twentieth century, period spanning the 1950s and 60s. Four of these technologies were deployed at fleet scales and commercially exported. The historical record indicates a remarkably consistent process of phased technology development that enabled the commercialization of designs that would define the global nuclear marketplace, beginning with research and development (R&D) and advancing through test reactors, small and large demonstration reactors, and first commercial-scale units. Following proof-of-principle R&D, historical commercialization lead times (from decision to construction of a demonstration reactor to first commercial launch) ranged from 12 to16 years for these four commercial technologies. Key factors contributing to successful commercialization included durable government support for early R&D and varying degrees of public-private partnering through commercial launch. This partnering included arrangements for technical support, siting, facility ownership, nuclear material provision, and cost sharing. The policy environment was characterized by unambiguous government support; stabile, effective and informed government program management and oversight; and flexibility in the public-private partnership arrangements to promote technology development and demonstration. Government advocacy was structured to support progressively increasing industry independence and self-sufficiency. This experience is documented and analyzed in this paper to provide salient lessons and example program elements for contemporary efforts to stimulate development and commercialization of a new generation of advanced nuclear technologies through collaboration and public-private partnerships.","PeriodicalId":16756,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science","volume":"10 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138586112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Development of an Ai-Based Predictive Anomaly Detection System to Nuclear Power Plant 为核电站开发基于人工智能的预测性异常检测系统

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Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.1115/1.4064123

Ryota Miyake, Shinya Tominaga, Yusuke Terakado, Naoyuki Takado, Toshio Aoki, Chikashi Miyamoto, Susumu Naito, Yasunori Taguchi, Yuichi Kato, Kota Nakata

{"title":"Development of an Ai-Based Predictive Anomaly Detection System to Nuclear Power Plant","authors":"Ryota Miyake, Shinya Tominaga, Yusuke Terakado, Naoyuki Takado, Toshio Aoki, Chikashi Miyamoto, Susumu Naito, Yasunori Taguchi, Yuichi Kato, Kota Nakata","doi":"10.1115/1.4064123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064123","url":null,"abstract":"In a large-scale plant such as a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), thousands of process values are measured for the purpose of monitoring the plant performance and the system health. It is difficult for plant operators to constantly monitor all of the process values. We present a data-driven method to comprehensively monitor a large number of process values and detect early signs of anomalies, including unknown events, with few false positives. In order to learn the complex changing internal state of a NPP and accurately predict the normal process values, we have developed a two-stage autoencoder (TSAE), a type of neural network, composed of a time window autoencoder and a deviation autoencoder. TSAE realizes to detect anomalous signals during the plant transient conditions by collecting time-series data and learning the nonlinear temporal correlation among them. In the actual plant, some process values which are physically uncorrelated with each other happen to behave similarly (pseudo-correlation). Learning the pseudo-correlation by the algorithm causes false positives because the predicted values of unrelated process values are incorrectly correlated. Therefore, Toshiba has proposed the model classification concept of separating the process values into two groups based on physical correlation and applied a model structure of TSAE. As a result, it becomes possible to learn only with the process values that are physically correlated and enhance the performance of prediction/detection. We assessed the improved TSAE with simulated process values of a NPP and showed excellent performances with few false positives.","PeriodicalId":16756,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science","volume":"65 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139245096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Special Experimental Environment for Gen. IV Reactors with Graphite Reflector 带石墨反射器的第 IV 代反应堆特殊实验环境

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Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.1115/1.4064124

Eva Vilimová, T. Peltán, R. Škoda

{"title":"Special Experimental Environment for Gen. IV Reactors with Graphite Reflector","authors":"Eva Vilimová, T. Peltán, R. Škoda","doi":"10.1115/1.4064124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064124","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, there is an increasing demand for new SMR reactors with a wide range of applications, often classified as a new generation IV. reactors. Unfortunately, there is no commercially operating nuclear reactor meeting the characteristics of Gen. IV reactors in its technical design and features. Gen. IV nuclear reactors are intensively developed worldwide, including the Czech Republic. At least two general Gen. IV thermal neutron reactor concepts use graphite as a moderator or reflector, as do many concepts of the very popular small modular reactors. To support research activities linked with the development of these reactors, an appropriate experimental environment and resources simulating conditions expected in Gen. IV reactors with graphite are needed. The calculated data confirm the results obtained during previous research. The experiment at LR-0 with a graphite reflector gives better results of neutron flux distribution in the reflector due to the extra graphite reflector layer and central graphite plugs. Besides, the core arrangement is included in a set of experiments supporting the research of reactor cores with graphite reflectors. The main reason for this article is to support the development of a new functional sample of neutron instrumentation for Gen. IV reactors.","PeriodicalId":16756,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139244868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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