Showing papers in "Progress in Nuclear Energy in 2017"

TL;DR: In this paper, a new series of heavy metal oxide (HMO) glasses in the 10WO3-xMoO3-(90-x)TeO2, x = 10 −40 −mol% system have been developed using melt quenching technique to investigate their potentiality for radiation shielding applications.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of alternative and nuclear energy consumption (NE), fossil fuel consumption (FFUEL), carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and oil rent (OILRENT) on economic growth and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the panel of nine Latin American countries, for the period of 1975-2013.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mass attenuation coefficients, effective atomic numbers and effective electron densities of oxide and oxyfluoride glass systems were calculated theoretically by WinXcom program and experimentally determined by the transmission method.

TL;DR: A techno-economic assessment of systems potentially suitable for coupling with a NPP for load following shows that district heating, desalination and hydrogen might be technically and economically feasible.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of polyethersulfone and polyamide (NF-1 and NF-2) membranes in terms of rejection and permeate flux for treatment of high-concentration uranium solutions under a variety of operational conditions was evaluated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the dusty gas model to analyze the mass transfer of VMD process and it could simulate the Mass Transfer process well with average relative error of 4.84%.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new methodology is presented for identifying flow regime and estimating the void fraction in gas-liquid flows independent of liquid phase density changes, based on gamma-ray attenuation and scattering combined with artificial neural networks (ANNs).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have focused on the scientific and technological challenges associated with reprocessing of spent fuel from both the thermal and fast reactors, and the experience gained in the operation of reprocessed plants in the separation of the spent fuel of thermal reactors into uranium, plutonium and high level waste is described in detail.

TL;DR: In this article, a visualized study was carried out to illustrate the details of the transportation of individual bubbles in a venturi-type bubble generator, where sizes, velocity, acceleration of the bubbles were obtained by Digital Image Analysis (DIA) method.

TL;DR: In this article, the effective atomic number (Z eff ) and electron density (N e ) of six analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs for total photon interaction in the energy range of 1-keV-100-meV using WinXCom were estimated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Xcom program has been used to calculate the mass attenuation coefficients (μm), effective atomic numbers (Zeff), effective electron densities (Nel), half value layer (HVL), and mean free path (MFP) in the energy range 1-keV-100-GeV of phthalocyanine (Pc) doped with Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn and PbPc.

TL;DR: In this paper, the combined sorption of U(VI) and phosphate ions on red clay was studied in their concentration range 0.1-1.1mM/dm3, indicating that the modified Na-adsorbent form was the most effective in the removal of UVI from the aqueous phase.

TL;DR: Weighted-SMOTE (WSMOTE) where oversampling of each minority data sample is carried out based on the weight assigned to it, and Recall and F-measure from the confusion matrix have been identified as the principal metrics to evaluate the performance of the classifier.

TL;DR: Compared with the currently used Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control method, the effectiveness of the proposed QP-based MPC (QPMPC) method for load tracking is verified by numerical simulations.

TL;DR: The saga of FBR technology development in India is presented in this paper, where the valuable experience in design and operation of Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) is recounted briefly.

TL;DR: In this paper, the surface chemistry of magnetite particles was discussed to understand its' interaction with tube support plate (TSP) clogging and tube fouling, and guidelines drawn from this review for investigating specifically TSP clogging consist on conducting representative condition experiments and electrokinetics investigations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine some of the limitations of the current favorite amidoxime braid system, as well as examine possible interactions with existing legal frameworks which have been put in place; in particular those protecting the marine environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the fuel transition from enriched 235U/U to 233U/Th to graphite-moderated MSR was analyzed and compared using an in-house developed tool which is based on SCALE6.1.

TL;DR: This work paves the way for Monte Carlo codes in life cycle simulations of nuclear reactor cores in continuous-energy Reactor Monte Carlo neutron and photon transport code RMC, developed by Department of Engineering Physics at Tsinghua University, Beijing.

TL;DR: The thorium fuel cycle based Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR) is being developed in this paper for large-scale deployment of thorium-based nuclear power plants in India.

TL;DR: In this paper, the axial dispersion of a phase is found to be mostly influenced by pulsation intensity and the flow rate of the phase itself and is minor influenced by the second phase flow rate.

TL;DR: A sampling-based method that utilizes the rapidly exploring random tree star (RRT*) algorithm, applicable in both continuous and discrete radiation fields, was proposed and implemented for planning minimum dose path navigation for workers in nuclear facilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the STAR-CCM+ software with a diffusion boundary layer condensation model to simulate the steam condensation inside the containment area and discussed the effect of the mesh density (mainstream mesh size and the Y+ value) on boundary heat flux.

TL;DR: A magnet-sensitive and strippable polymeric coating that consists of a magnetic adsorbent with 137Cs adsorption properties using a polyacrylamide (PAAm)/alginate(Alg)-based hydrogel with highly elastic properties was developed for surface decontamination as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The first stage is primarily based on the Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) and the evolution of technology of PHWRs is discussed in the first part of this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present several important refinements of nodal diffusion methods that are required to obtain accurate commercial LWR power distributions using single-assembly lattice data, including thermal-hydraulic feedback, fuel depletion, and pin power reconstruction.

TL;DR: The Total Monte Carlo methodology for ND uncertainty propagation has been subject to some critique because the nuclear reaction parameters are sampled from distributions which are generated by the TMC model as mentioned in this paper, which is not suitable for nuclear data.

TL;DR: In this article, the Vickers micro-indentation characterization was used to evaluate the mechanical properties of U3Si2 specimens of varying microstructure in order to determine the effect of sintering conditions on mechanical behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, two interface conditions, the Lagrange multiplier method and the upwinding method, for hybrid P N - S N calculations are proposed for the self-adjoint angular flux (SAAF) formulation of the transport equation using the continuous finite element method (FEM) for spatial discretization.

TL;DR: An innovative methodology to benchmark decommissioning projects, both from the nuclear and non-nuclear industry, within the UK and worldwide is proposed and guidelines to improve the selection, planning and delivery of future NDPs are developed.