Analysis of explosion incidents in nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities and recommendations for their prevention by Jiaxin Liu, Yang Tian, Shuo Yang, Yongquan Qin, Xuefeng Hou, Yantao Hu, Liudong Hou, Jing Ma

“…In addition, the findings emphasize the severe risk of chemical explosions during fuel reprocessing. Critical actions for ensuring the safe reprocessing of nuclear fuel include providing parameter control and equipment maintenance for evaporative units, ensuring an effective cooling system for high-level waste storage equipment, preventing the inadvertent desiccation of nitric acid substances within storage facilities, and mitigating human error through training and process design. …”
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Simulation of the radiation environment during spent nuclear fuel management by O. V. Balan, S. A. Paskevych, S. S. Pidberezniyy, D. V. Fedorchenko

“…We have developed a model of the technological process for handling spent nuclear fuel in the reception building of the Centralized Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel using the ChNPP VRdose Planner Pro v. 2.2DEV-0. …”
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Developing a dynamic combined power quality index for assessing the performance of a nuclear facility by Asmaa M. Elsotohy, Mohammed Hamouda Ali, Ahmed S. Adail, Ayman A. Eisa, El-said A Othman

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Method for assessment of residual heat generation within preparation of spent nuclear fuel shipment from research reactors by S. H. Kadalev

“…In the presented paper is considered the approach to an assessment of the residual heat generation within preparation of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) shipment from research reactors. …”
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Analysis of the Processes in Spent Fuel Pools in Case of Loss of Heat Removal due to Water Leakage by Algirdas Kaliatka, Viktor Ognerubov, Virginijus Vileiniškis, Eugenijus Ušpuras

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Base load nuclear energy for ammonia, paper, biofuels and mining facilities with dispatchable electricity using high temperature electrolysis [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Charles Forsberg, Hanna Won, John Parsons

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Natural and Waste Materials for Desulfurization of Gaseous Fuels and Petroleum Products by Iliya Iliev, Antonina Filimonova, Andrey Chichirov, Alena Vlasova, Ruzina Kamalieva, Ivan Beloev

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Capacity optimization of nuclear power integration to meet dynamic industrial demand by Logan Williams, Daniel Mikkelson, Aidan Rigby, Sarah Creasman, Michael Curtis

“…To decarbonize their industrial facilities, The Dow Chemical Company has collaborated with Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to study the integration of nuclear power with an industrial chemical facility. …”
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SPES3 Facility RELAP5 Sensitivity Analyses on the Containment System for Design Review by Andrea Achilli, Cinzia Congiu, Roberta Ferri, Fosco Bianchi, Paride Meloni, Davor Grgic, Milorad Dzodzo

“…An Italian MSE R&D programme on Nuclear Fission is funding, through ENEA, the design and testing of SPES3 facility at SIET, for IRIS reactor simulation. …”
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Choosing to comply with the U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement. Factors leading to state compliance by Octavio González Segovia

“…Some scholars assume that the U.S. will abide by the India-U.S. 123 civil nuclear agreement, which main objective is to supply India with nuclear fuel. …”
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Conceptual basis for organizing the decommissioning a nuclear power plant based on a reactor unit by Kuznetsov Vladimir, Spiridonov Valery, Derevyashkin Igor, Bukreeva Tatiana, Chebotareva Ksenia, Shinkareva Olga

“…The lack of funds, technologies, radioactive substance storage facilities, spent nuclear fuel processing technologies and specialists in the field of decommissioning impose a restraining imprint on the decommissioning process. …”
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Reprocessing Exhaust Gas Xenon Isotope Correlation Spent Fuel Burn-Up Based on ORIGEN Code by Sheng-hui HUANG, Chang-kun XU, Hao-dong SHAN, Yan CHEN, Li-li LI, Yong-gang ZHAO

“…Environmental sampling analysis technology is one of the safeguards measures used by International Atomic Energy Agency to detect undeclared nuclear materials and nuclear activities. Noble gas isotope correlations technique is of great significance in nuclear safeguards supervision and monitoring of large-scale reprocessing facilities, which is far from the reprocessing process and less invasive. …”
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Uncertainty Analysis and Benchmark for Nuclear Criticality Safety Experiment about Uranium Solution Multiple-unit System by ZHOU Qi1, XIA Zhaodong1, CHENG Yuting1, SUN Xu1, WANG Fan1, LI Dongpeng1, 2, LI Huanxing1, ZHANG Zhenyang1, ZHU Qingfu1

“…To increasing the production efficiency of nuclear fuel cycle, processing equipment with fissile materials is arranged closer to each other than before. …”

Safety Analysis Reports of First-Of-A-Kind Nuclear Reactors in Brazil: Proposal of Content for Deterministic Safety Analysis by Nelson Luiz Dias Ferreira, Claudia Giovedi, Mike Modro, Alessandro Petruzzi

“… The main documents of Licensing processes for nuclear reactors in Brazil are the Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR), in the construction phase, and the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR), in the operation phase (initial and permanent), as defined by the National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN). …”
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Research on Integrated Fast Reactor Economic Analysis Method by LIU Lin, LUO Mei, FU Qi

“…Integrated fast reactor is a nuclear energy system consisting of a metal fuel fast reactor, a fuel regeneration facility (including dry spent fuel reprocessing and metal fuel manufacturing), and a waste preparation facility. …”
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Roadmap for the Ukrainian hydrogen strategy, the course for implementation in Europe by I. D. Bahrii, O. O. Popov, Ia. M. Kryl, Yu. F. Rudenko, I. L. Koliabina, I. Ye. Mamyshev

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Current Status of Pyroprocessing Development at KAERI by Hansoo Lee, Geun-IL Park, Jae-Won Lee, Kweon-Ho Kang, Jin-Mok Hur, Jeong-Guk Kim, Seungwoo Paek, In-Tae Kim, IL-Je Cho

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Machine learning for forecasting factory concentrations of nitrogen oxides from univariate data exploiting trend attributes by Jiaxin Liu, Shuo Yang, Qichao Li, Leiming Ji, Xuefeng Hou, Liudong Hou, Jing Ma

“…The development of post-processing technology for spent nuclear fuel is essential to ensuring the sustainable growth of nuclear energy. …”
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Design and Research on Anti-assembly Drop of Integrated Fast Reactor Cantilever Transfer Mechanism by LIU Zhifang, GUO Xiaoxian, YU Tuanjie, ZHANG Wei, WANG Haozhong

“…The integrated fast reactor represents the world’s mainstream development direction and offers the highest nuclear fuel cycle efficiency. The reactor is the core component of the integrated fast reactor and the largest facility within the integrated closed fuel nuclear energy cycle system. …”
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Comprehensive assessment of scale formation, corrosion, and biological pollution in a cooling water supply system by Olha Biedunkova, Pavlo Kuznietsov, Oleg Pinchuk

“…The comprehensive assessment method presented in this article includes adjustments to the existing method to improve its effectiveness, which is used for monitoring of spent fuel storage facilities at a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). • Introduced a comprehensive methodology combining direct and indirect monitoring for assessing scale formation, corrosion, and biological pollution in nuclear power plant (NPP) cooling water systems. • Enhanced monitoring techniques enable the simultaneous assessment of corrosion resistance and scale formation potential, overcoming limitations of traditional methods. • Incorporated colony-forming unit analysis, algae cell quantification, and hydrobox-based evaluations for a detailed understanding of biofouling. • Validated methodology offers predictive risk modelling and optimised strategies to ensure reliability and safety in NPP operations.…”
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