Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science: Recent submissions
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Special Issue: EU ESFR-SMART ProjectWord From the Horizon: 2020 EU ESFR-SMART Project Coordinator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Konstantin MikityukThis Special Issue of the ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science includes 2 editorials and 25 technical papers presenting the main achievements of the Horizon-2020 European Union ... -
Professor Igor Leonardovich Pioro on His 65th Birthday
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Professor Igor Leonardovich PioroProfessor Igor Pioro is one of the well-known names in the field of nuclear engineering and heat transfer. Born on September 22, 1956, in Kiev, Ukraine, he received his M.A.Sc. in Thermal ... -
Guest Editorial by Gilles Rodriguez
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Gilles RodriguezIt is an honor and a pleasure to wish to all actors of the ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science (Chair, Editors, Authors, Readers, and Reviewers) my New Year's greetings. This 2022 year ... -
Greetings From the Chair of the JSME Power Energy Systems Division (PESD)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Masakazu HisatsuneI would like to say a New Year’s greeting to readers, reviewers, and editors of ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science (NERS) as a Chair of the Power and Energy Systems Division (PESD) ... -
The ASME Nuclear Engineering Division Celebrates the 7th Year of the Journal
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Richard R. Schultz Chair, NEDThe ASME Nuclear Engineering Division (NED), the sponsoring organization for both the creation of the Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science and key supporter of Professor Igor ... -
Reviewer's Recognition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The Reviewers of the Year Award is given to reviewers who have made an outstanding contribution to the journal in terms of the quantity, quality, and turnaround time of reviews completed during the past 12 months. The prize ... -
Editorial
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Professor Igor L. Pioro, EditorThe ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science (NERS) celebrates its seventh year (our first issue was published in January of 2015). On this occasion, I would like to congratulate ... -
Designing Resilience: Seismic Analysis and Civil Design of Hinkley Point C Offshore Heat Sink
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)After nearly 20 years, a new British nuclear power station is being built at Hinkley Point, UK. A significant level of resilience is expected of the nuclear power plant, which is reflected in the UK regulatory requirements. ... -
A Collaborative Experience: Implementation of an Optimized Tc-99m Generator Assembly Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) has a 6-hr half-life making customer transportation times a challenge. Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) health products group has overcome this by delivering the parent ... -
Simulation Study of a Shield-Free Directional Gamma-Ray Detector Using Small-Angle Compton Scattering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Gamma-ray imaging is a technique for visualizing the spatial distribution of radioactive materials. Gamma-ray imaging has recently been applied to research on environmental restoration and decommissioning of the Fukushima ... -
Global Sensitivity Analysis for U(VI) Transport for Integrating Coupled Thermal–Hydrological–Chemical Processes Models Into Performance Assessment Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The long-term integrity of the bentonite buffer is of significant interest in the performance assessment (PA) of geological nuclear waste disposal. This study aims at understanding how the initial bentonite chemical ... -
Backfill of Radioactive Waste Disposal: Feasibility Study of Argillite/Bentonite (COx/MX80) Pellets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A pelletized solution composed of COx argillite and MX80 bentonite is examined as backfill for the deep geological disposal of radioactive waste (Cigéo project). The implementation is studied in terms of installation and ... -
Rewetting Analysis of a Pressurized Water Reactor Fuel Slab Using Improved Lumped Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This work analyzes the rewetting of a pressurized water reactor (PWR) fuel slab using improved lumped parameter formulations based on Hermite approximations for integrals. The time-dependent two-dimensional rewetting problem ... -
Best Practices and Lessons Learned From Nuclear Materials Retrieval Programs of the United States Department of Energy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The Atomic Energy Act, as amended, authorizes the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies to distribute nuclear materials to public or private institutions for the purposes of education ... -
Metallic Fast Reactor Separate Effect Studies for Fuel Safety
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFR) are one of the advanced nuclear reactor concepts to be commercially applied for electricity production. The benefits of SFR are well-known and include: the possibility of a closed fuel ... -
The Environmental, Economic, and Social Performance of Nuclear Technology in Australia
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The prominence of climate change is surging with Australia feeling the impacts of hotter and dryer climates. With 2030 approaching, Australia's promise to reduce emissions is seeming harder to achieve with their energy mix ... -
Lessons Learned From the European Union Referendum to Better Promote Nuclear Energy
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Special Issue: Selected Papers From the International Youth Nuclear Congress 2020
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The International Youth Nuclear Congress (IYNC)1 was held in Sydney, Australia during 8–13 March, 2020, and cohosted with the Australian Young Generation in Nuclear (AusYGN).2 The IYNC and AusYGN are organizations, which ... -
Small Modular Reactors: Learning From the Past
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Most emerging small modular reactor (SMR) designs resemble older reactors that were designed in the early days of the nuclear technology. Experience with operating these old reactors can contribute to the licensing of new ... -
CANDU-Like Features in Emerging Small Modular Reactor Designs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Several small modular reactor (SMR) designs are emerging, but only the CANDU® SMR and a couple of Indian designs incorporate the familiar features of the larger CANDU reactors. This paper shows that while the CANDU-reactor ...