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A suggested roadmap for world-wide energy resource planning and management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In the near future, we will need an internationally based system for worldwide planning of future energy resources and their effect on the world environment.
Boothroyd, R. G.
core   +1 more source

Empirical Risk Analysis of Severe Reactor Accidents in Nuclear Power Plants after Fukushima

open access: yesScience and Technology of Nuclear Installations, 2012
Many countries are reexamining the risks connected with nuclear power generation after the Fukushima accidents. To provide updated information for the corresponding discussion a simple empirical approach is applied for risk quantification of severe ...
Jan Christian Kaiser
doaj   +1 more source

A review of inherent safety characteristics of metal alloy sodium-cooled fast reactor fuel against postulated accidents

open access: yesNuclear Engineering and Technology, 2015
The thermal, mechanical, and neutronic performance of the metal alloy fast reactor fuel design complements the safety advantages of the liquid metal cooling and the pool-type primary system.
Tanju Sofu
doaj   +1 more source

ROLE OF PASSIVE SAFETY FEATURES IN PREVENTION AND MITIGATION OF SEVERE PLANT CONDITIONS IN INDIAN ADVANCED HEAVY WATER REACTOR

open access: yesNuclear Engineering and Technology, 2013
Pressing demands of economic competitiveness, the need for large-scale deployment, minimizing the need of human intervention, and experience from the past events and incidents at operating reactors have guided the evolution and innovations in reactor ...
VIKAS JAIN   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integral PWR-Type Small Modular Reactor Developmental Status, Design Characteristics and Passive Features: A Review

open access: yesEnergies, 2020
In recent years, the trend in small modular reactor (SMR) technology development has been towards the water-cooled integral pressurized water reactor (iPWR) type.
Chireuding Zeliang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

MELCOR steady state calculation of the generic PWR of 40MWth

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Radiation Sciences, 2021
After the two most significant nuclear accidents in history – the Chernobyl Reactor Four explosion in Ukraine (1986) and the Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan (2011) –, the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) included a new chapter (19) dedicated to ...
Maritza Rodríguez Gual   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review of Past Nuclear Accidents: Source Terms and Recorded Gamma-Ray Spectra [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Airborne gamma ray spectrometry using high volume scintillation detectors, optionally in conjunction with Ge detectors, has potential for making rapid environmental measurements in response to nuclear accidents.
Allyson, J.D.   +4 more
core  

Toward Standardization in CO2 Electrolysis: A Round Robin Study

open access: yesAdvanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
CO2 electrolysis is a promising green technology for producing fuels and chemicals. To support its real‐world adoption, researchers conducted a collaborative study to identify sources of experimental variability. They found key differences in temperature and pressure control across labs and proposed a standardized testing protocol to improve ...
Dorottya Hursán   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revising the Emergency Management Requirements for new generation reactors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The paper presents the application of a new risk-informed methodology for the identification of the Emergency Management Requirements (EMR) to a Generation II, Large size Reactor and a Generation III+ Small Modular Reactor.
Gallego Díaz, Eduardo F.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

AI in chemical engineering: From promise to practice

open access: yesAIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) in chemical engineering has moved from promise to practice: physics‐aware (gray‐box) models are gaining traction, reinforcement learning complements model predictive control (MPC), and generative AI powers documentation, digitization, and safety workflows.
Jia Wei Chew   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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