Belgian nuclear fuel: Plant to restart

Fuel to the nuclear debate

Nuclear energy is one of the most popular topics of today’s publication market. The literature about the pros and cons of nuclear power may easily fill a whole library. Is there anything new to add to this voluminous body of arguments and contra-arguments that would justify editing another book on nuclear energy? Andrew Blowers and David Pepper obviously felt that way and published a reader on ...

Methane- to- Gasoline Plant Adds to New Zealand Liquid Fuel Resources

Methane- to- Gasoline Plant Adds to New Zealand Liquid Fuel Resources

Force-feedback teleoperation of an industrial robot in a nuclear spent fuel reprocessing plant

Purpose – Aims to make an industrial robot work as a telemanipulator with force feedback, in order to carry out various tasks for remote handling in nuclear fuel cycle plants. Design/methodology/approach – The robot STABLI RX170 (used as a slave arm) has been fitted with a force-torque sensor and an electronic system for sensors’ signals multiplexing. The overall system has been made tolerant ...

The Model Establishment and Analysis of TRACE/FRAPTRAN for Chinshan Nuclear Power Plant Spent Fuel Pool

Abstract—TRACE is developed by U.S. NRC for the nuclear power plants (NPPs) safety analysis. We focus on the establishment and application of TRACE/FRAPTRAN/SNAP models for Chinshan NPP (BWR/4) spent fuel pool in this research. The geometry is 12.17 m × 7.87 m × 11.61 m for the spent fuel pool. In this study, there are three TRACE/SNAP models: one-channel, two-channel, and multi-channel TRACE/S...