...; final manuscript received April 7, 2018; published online September 10, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Akos Horvath. 19 10 2017 07 04 2018 Advanced reactors Nuclear fuels Reactor Physics Transport theory Materials A nuclear accident not only damages the life and property...

... with a target date of November 2017. Nuclear engineering Nuclear fuels Reactor Physics Materials 24 07 2017 07 12 2017 Manuscript received July 24, 2017; final manuscript received December 7, 2017; published online May 16, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Dmitry Paramonov.The United States...

...; published online May 16, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Milorad Dzodzo. 27 09 2017 27 02 2018 Nuclear engineering Reactor physics Transport theory China's first AP1000 ® reactor has entered the commissioning phase of hot functional tests, for the requirements of nuclear safety review...

..., lower reactivity control blades, and lower reactor thermal powers as compared to the original conceptual design. The optimal blade positions throughout the fuel cycle were determined so as to minimize the MCST and MFCLT using a genetic algorithm and the reactor physics code PARCS. The final design...

... is of great value in solving the SP3 equations. The SPN theory [ 1 ] is the simplified spherical harmonics method for solving the neutron transport equation. It was widely studied, and it shows a great potential in the next generation reactor physics calculation because of its better accuracy than...

.... Editor: Leon Cizelj. 24 08 2017 26 11 2017 Nuclear engineering Reactor physics Standards Licensing Regulatory issues Codes Transport theory Burnup calculation is an important issue in reactor core calculation and analysis, and it is also the basis of fuel management...

...; final manuscript received November 28, 2017; published online March 5, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Leon Cizelj. 30 08 2017 28 11 2017 Nuclear engineering Reactor physics Systems reliability Transport theory Systems performance Point reactor neutron kinetics equations...

... Schulenberg. 23 05 2017 24 08 2017 Advanced reactors Reactor physics Transport theory The Canadian pressure tube super-critical water-cooled reactor (PT-SCWR) is a generation IV reactor concept utilizing a pressure tube design with supercritical light water as coolant...

... Schulenberg. 12 04 2017 31 07 2017 Next generation reactors Reactor physics Transport theory The supercritical water-cooled reactor (SCWR) is one of the generation IV reactor concepts. The economic performance of the SCWR has a core focus, and in this study forms one of the key...

... safety margins [ 1 ]. Fuel cycle Nuclear engineering Plant operations Reactor physics Plant engineering Plant modifications Plant life cycle Transport theory Radioactive waste management Decommissioning Maintenance 30 10 2016 26 12 2016 Manuscript received October...

... , J. D. , 2002 , “ Full-Core, 2-D, LWR Core Calculations With CASMO-4E ,” International Conference on the New Frontiers of Nuclear Technology: Reactor Physics, Safety and High-Performance Computing (PHYSOR 2002), Seoul, Korea, Oct. 7–10, Session 13A-02. [9] Zhong , Z. P. , Downar , T. J...

... May 25, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Leon Cizelj. 30 09 2016 14 12 2016 Coupled codes Current reactors Nuclear engineering Plant operations Reactor physics Plant engineering Plant modifications Plant life cycle Transport theory Maintenance Several benchmarks have been...

... the existing steady-state code for SNTA preliminary verification, the numeric results show that SNTA is accurate and efficient to SCWR core steady-state analysis. Advanced reactors Coupled codes Next generation reactors Reactor physics Thermal hydraulics Transport theory A two-dimensional...

..., particularly for perturbations to coolant and moderator density and fuel temperature. Manuscript received January 28, 2016; final manuscript received August 15, 2016; published online December 20, 2016. Assoc. Editor: Michal Kostal. 28 1 2016 15 8 2016 15 8 2016 Reactor physics...

...DUMITRU SERGHIUTA 18 4 2016 19 4 2016 19 4 2016 Nuclear engineering Reactor physics Transport theory This book proposes a broader discussion of reactor technology,starting from basic nuclear physics and models, a “modern” exposition of the reactor physics and current...

... of this paper. Reactor physics is concerned with the study of neutron interactions with matter inside a nuclear reactor with the objective of determining a neutron-flux distribution inside the core. This flux distribution is then used as a basis for thermal-hydraulic calculations with the objective...