Abstract: Nuclear energy is faced with major challenges ranging from publicperception and acceptance to nonproliferation and continued operationand enhanced safety of existing fleet with lessons learned from recentFukushima Daiichi ...

Abstract: In recent years, several small modular reactor (SMR) designs have been developed. These nuclear power plants (NPPs) not only offer a small power size (less than 300آ MWe), a reduced spatial footprint, and modularized compact ...