The Helium Cooled Pebble Bed (HCPB) breeding blanket, being developed by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and its partners is one two driver blanket candidates to be selected for European demonstration fusion power plant (EU DEMO). in-box Loss Coolant Accident (LOCA) a postulated initiating event (BB) that must accounted within design basis. In this paper, BB cap region analyzed abil...

Background: The late-onset cerebellar ataxias (LOCAs) have until recently resisted molecular diagnosis. Contributing to this diagnostic gap is that non-coding structural variations, such as repeat expansions, are not fully accessible standard short-read sequencing analysis. Methods: We combined bioinformatics analysis of whole-genome and long-read search for expansions in patients with LOCA. en...

Many studies have been made on clinical aspects, immunol ogy, bacteriology and treatment of en 'thema nodosumleprosum (ENL). It s patho'logy ha s been described , among others, by Murata (3), Sugai a nd Monobe (X), M itsuda (2), Reiss (5), Rodriguez (6), Wolcott (9) and Sasaki (1), on the basis of light microscopy. However, electron microscopic studies have not bee n reported. Recent advances i...

We can trace the development of notary on Eastern coast Adriatic and its hinterland since 11th century. Since then, notaries had right to issue documents in cities. In Istria, note u appears for first time historical sources 932 Koper, from 991 Poreč. The issued by public faith (fides publicam) were valid as evidence court cases. At end 12th century, appeared all Dalmatian cities a very importa...

Safety of a nuclear power plant and its related systems are the first key issue to assure experts and the public of the safe operation of the plant. The AP1000 reactor is provided with passive safety systems which require no operator actions due to utilizing only natural forces such as gravity, natural circulation and compressed gas to achieve the safety function. In this paper the core damage ...

In this study, uncertainty and sensitivity analyses were performed with MELCOR 2.2.18 to study the hydrogen generation (figure-of-merit (FoM)) during in-vessel phase of a severe accident in light water reactor. The focus work was laid on large generation-III pressurized reactor (PWR) double-ended hot leg (HL) break loss coolant (LB-LOCA) without safety injection (SI). FPT-1 Phebus integral expe...

• 1D and 3D nodalisations of the reactor core are compared for PWR LOCA scenarios. PCT generally significantly lower than multi-channel models. CCFL behaviour at upper tie plate explains many observed differences. Modern thermal-hydraulics (TH) systems analysis codes increasingly being updated to include three-dimensional (3D) TH components towards capturing complex flow phenomena in large ligh...