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NEW FRONTIERS IN THERMAL PLASMAS FROM SPACE TO NANOMATERIALS

  • Boulos, Maher I.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2012
  • Thermal plasma technology has been at the center of major developments over the past century. It has found numerous applications ranging from aerospace materials testing to nanopowder synthesis and processing. In the present review highlights of principal breakthroughs in this field are presented with emphasis on an analysis of the basic phenomena involved, and the potential of the technology for industrial scale applications.

Generation and Benchmarking of a 69-group Cross Section Library for Thermal Reactor Applications (열중성자로 핵계산을 위한 69군 단면적 라이브러리 생산 및 검증)

  • Kim, Jung-Do;Lee, Jong-Tai;Gil, Choong-Sup;Kim, Hark-Rho
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.245-258
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    • 1989
  • A 69-group cross section library consisting of more than 130 materials was generated for thermal reactor applications using the NJOY nuclear data processing system and the recent version of evaluated nuclear data files available from IAEA Nuclear Data Section. The multigroup library was validated through the analysis of various criticality experiments and depletion results of PWR. When used with the WIMS-KAERI code, the average $K_{eff}$ obtained for 47 uranium-oxide and 41 uranium metal fueled critical configurations is 0.9997 with a standard deviation of 0.69 percent. The calculated burnup dependent isotopic inventories of uranium and plutonium generally show good agreement with measured values obtained from depleted PWR pins.s.

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Understanding radiation effects in SRAM-based field programmable gate arrays for implementing instrumentation and control systems of nuclear power plants

  • Nidhin, T.S.;Bhattacharyya, Anindya;Behera, R.P.;Jayanthi, T.;Velusamy, K.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.49 no.8
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    • pp.1589-1599
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    • 2017
  • Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are getting more attention in safety-related and safety-critical application development of nuclear power plant instrumentation and control systems. The high logic density and advancements in architectural features make static random access memory (SRAM)-based FPGAs suitable for complex design implementations. Devices deployed in the nuclear environment face radiation particle strike that causes transient and permanent failures. The major reasons for failures are total ionization dose effects, displacement damage dose effects, and single event effects. Different from the case of space applications, soft errors are the major concern in terrestrial applications. In this article, a review of radiation effects on FPGAs is presented, especially soft errors in SRAM-based FPGAs. Single event upset (SEU) shows a high probability of error in the dependable application development in FPGAs. This survey covers the main sources of radiation and its effects on FPGAs, with emphasis on SEUs as well as on the measurement of radiation upset sensitivity and irradiation experimental results at various facilities. This article also presents a comparison between the major SEU mitigation techniques in the configuration memory and user logics of SRAM-based FPGAs.

HIGH POWER, HIGH BRIGHTNESS PROTON ACCELERATORS

  • Lee, Yong-Yung
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.433-446
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    • 2005
  • The development of accelerator science and technology has been accommodating ever increasing demand from scientific community of the beam energy and intensity of proton beams. The use of high-powered proton beams has extended from the traditional application of nuclear and high-energy physics to other applications, including spallation neutron source replacing nuclear reactor, nuclear actinide transmutation, energy amplification reactors. This article attempts to review development of proton accelerator, both linear and circular, and issues related to the proton beam energy, intensity as well as its output power. For related accelerator physics and technical review, one should refer to the recent article in the Reviews of Modem Physics [1]