EPJ Web of Conferences, 2016 Paper describes the new approach of fitting axial fuel burn-up patterns in peripheral fuel assemblies of VVER-1000 type reactors, on the base of ex-core neutron leakage measurements, neutron-physical calculations and in-core SPND measured data.
Borodkin Pavel +2 more
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Vegetation structure and fire weather influence variation in burn severity and fuel consumption during peatland wildfires [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2016 Temperate peatland wildfires are of significant environmental concern but information on their environmental effects is lacking. We assessed variation in burn severity and fuel consumption within and between wildfires that burnt British moorlands in 2011
G. M. Davies +3 more
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Famos III, burn-up measurement system suitable for la Hague acceptance criteria control [PDF]
Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection, 2002 Fuel Assembly Monitoring System (FAMOS) was developed to set up a NDA method for the characterization of light water reactor fuel assemblies. The applied active/passive monitoring system made total characterization of fuel assemblies possible, without ...
Simon Gerold G. +1 more
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Study of Neptunium, Americium and Protactinium Addition for 300MWth GFR with Uranium Carbide Fuel
Computational and Experimental Research in Materials and Renewable Energy, 2019 A study of Neptunium, Americium, and Protactinium addition for GFR 300MWth with Uranium Carbide fuel has been performed. The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of addition Neptunium, Americium, and Protactinium in a 300MWth Gas ...
Ratna Dewi Syarifah, Alvi Nur Sabrina
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Use of erbium as a burnable absorber for the VVER reactor core life extension [PDF]
Nuclear Energy and Technology, 2020 The paper presents the results of a computational and theoretical analysis concerned with the use of erbium as a burnable absorber in VVER-type reactors.
Saleh H. Alassaf +2 more
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Pattern of Childhood Burn Injuries and their Management Outcome at Bugando Medical Centre in Northwestern Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2011 Burn injuries constitute a major public health problem and are the leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide. There is paucity of published data on childhood burn injuries in Tanzania, particularly the study area.
Gilyoma Japhet M +13 more
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Reprocessing Exhaust Gas Xenon Isotope Correlation Spent Fuel Burn-Up Based on ORIGEN Code
He huaxue yu fangshe huaxueEnvironmental sampling analysis technology is one of the safeguards measures used by International Atomic Energy Agency to detect undeclared nuclear materials and nuclear activities.
Sheng-hui HUANG +5 more
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Nukleonika, 2014 Decrease of the economically accessible uranium resources and the inherent proliferation resistance of thorium fuel motivate its application in nuclear power systems.
Gholamzadeh Zohreh +5 more
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A STUDY ON THE INITIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DOMESTIC SPENT NUCLEAR FUELS FOR LONG TERM DRY STORAGE
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2013 During the last three decades, South Korean nuclear power plants have discharged about 5,950 tons of spent fuel and the maximum bum-up reached 55 GWd/MTU in 2002.
JUSEONG KIM +3 more
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Optimization Study of Dry Storage Canister Layout Scheme for Spent Fuel Assembly of PWR
Yuanzineng kexue jishuAccording to the requirements for critical safety and thermal safety of spent fuel assembly and the principle of optimization of radiation protection, the lumped parameter point burn-up model is typically used to calculate the source term of the spent ...
GAO Jinghui, ZHONG Shengdong, LI Gang, ZHAO Bingquan, XU Zhixian, ZHOU Xiaoling
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