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3. Design and Analysis of Core Design for Small Modular Reactors

Author : Bahman Zohuri

Published in: Heat Pipe Applications in Fission Driven Nuclear Power Plants

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The pronuclear energy and advocates are lobbying that the sustainable development of the world’s energy sector cannot be achieved without extensive use of nuclear energy and the advantages of nuclear-related technologies, including upcoming new generation of the Small Modular Reactors in near future horizon. The dawn of these SMRs requires new design and analysis no matter if they are falling into Light Water Reactor (LWR), pressurized water reactor (PWR), or even multi-application small light water reactor (MASLWR) categories, depending on the vendor involved with these new technologies and consequently safety standards and their nonproliferation requirements as well. This chapter visits these standards for core design and generally elaborated on them with understanding that readers need to refer just beyond this book and this chapter for more details.

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Title: Design and Analysis of Core Design for Small Modular Reactors
Author: Bahman Zohuri
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Heat Pipe Applications in Fission Driven Nuclear Power Plants
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-05881-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-05882-1

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05882-1_3