operating nuclear plant Articles
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Building and maintaining a knowledge-sharing culture for nuclear knowledge transfer
This article highlights the problem of lack of willingness to share knowledge in nuclear organisations. This occurrence is widely common for different entities and business fields. The nuclear industry and nuclear power plant operating companies are not an exception. Knowledge may be considered as power, but in the context of an ageing workforce and the human resource shortage in the nuclear ...
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Safety assessment for the deficient operation data in the gas-cooled nuclear power plants for hydrogen production
The probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) is investigated in the case of the operational data shortage which is characteristic of the passive system in gas-cooled nuclear power plants (NPPs). Therefore, it is difficult to make a quantification of the PSA. One of the solutions is to compare the passive system and the active system. Using this comparison, one can find the priority of the passive ...
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The status and patterns of nuclear education in an anti-nuclear environment, Austria
This paper describes the current status and basic patterns of nuclear education in Austria and highlights the Nuclear Knowledge Management (NKM) activities of Atominstitute (ATI) through national and international networks. This institute hosts a TRIGA Mark II research reactor for research, training and education purposes. Austria has no nuclear power plant in operation because of the legislation ...
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Project - James Fisher Nuclear (JFN)
James Fisher Nuclear (JFN) supplies specialist engineering, manufacturing, and technical services for decommissioning nuclear facilities. Once nuclear facilities reach the end of their operational life, all nuclear materials, plants, and buildings must be removed and properly disposed of, a process known as “decommissioning”. When done correctly, decommissioning safely and ...
By VideoRay LLC
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An approach of manpower development for new nuclear power programmes: a case study of Bangladesh
This paper reviews the present state of nuclear power infrastructure of Bangladesh. It describes how Bangladesh is progressing towards nuclear power. The major infrastructure issues about the way in which to implement the country's first nuclear power project have been identified and analysed. The domestic education and training infrastructure of the nuclear power sector of the country has been ...
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General features and validation of the recent KARATE-440 code system
In the last few years several projects aiming at the introduction of new VVER-440 fuel types and resulting in more economic fuel cycles were initiated: increased average enrichment, modification of the lattice pitch and fuel diameter, profiled enrichment, application of burnable absorber, modification of the absorber assembly coupler part. The first version of the KARATE-440 code system was ...
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U.S. Nuclear Power in Decline
Nuclear power generation in the United States is falling. After increasing rapidly since the 1970s, electricity generation at U.S. nuclear plants began to grow more slowly in the early 2000s. It then plateaued between 2007 and 2010—before falling more than 4 percent over the last two years. Projections for 2013 show a further 1 percent drop. With reactors retiring early and proposed ...
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The Future of Nuclear Power Plants
With the blast of the French nuclear power plant a few weeks ago, safety of nuclear power plant designs has fallen under more scrutiny. Although according to sources the blast took place in the turbine hall and no nuclear leak was found, this event has brought more attention to improved design and operation standards. Following the incident earlier this month Toshiba, a Japanese multinational ...
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BBA emergency pump units for a nuclear power plant
Following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, safety regulations at many nuclear plants have been considerably tightened, this has led to an increased demand for fire fighting pump systems. These systems must comply with extremely strict requirements and regulations. Working closely together with the Belgian distributor Rental Pumps, BBA Pumps has recently completed one of the most demanding ...
By BBA Pumps BV
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The Desire for Dial Phones Syndrome: Subsidizing Conventional Energy
When I served as a U.S. Senate aide in the 1970’s and ran the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) in the 1980’s and 1990’s, I would constantly face the lament by oil state Democrats and corporate Republicans indignantly whining about federal and state government subsidies for energy efficiency and renewable energy. Now I strongly respond that nuclear energy received over ...
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Fukushima Meltdown Hastens Decline of Nuclear Power
On May 5, 2012, Japan shut down its Tomari 3 nuclear reactor on the northern island of Hokkaido for inspection, marking the first time in over 40 years that the country had not a single nuclear power plant generating electricity. The March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown shattered public confidence in atomic energy, thus far making it politically ...
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