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A Feasibility Study Of A Nuclear Power Plant With No Moving Parts, Jonathan Mark Schattke
A Feasibility Study Of A Nuclear Power Plant With No Moving Parts, Jonathan Mark Schattke
Masters Theses
"In a nuclear reactor design, every moving part in a system is considered a failure point. In this study, a proposal is made for designing a nuclear reactor that has no moving parts by coupling an accelerator driven core (removing control system moving parts) to a magnetohydrodynamic generator (removing power generation moving parts) using mercury coolant (removing pumping system moving parts). Further safety is realized by using a subcritical core, where the core is never able to sustain a chain reaction on its own, obviating many safety systems. The design is verified with a Monte Carlo simulation "--Abstract, page iii.
Attenuation Properties Of Cement Composites: Experimental Measurements And Monte Carlo Calculations, Raul Florez
Attenuation Properties Of Cement Composites: Experimental Measurements And Monte Carlo Calculations, Raul Florez
Masters Theses
"Developing new cement based materials with excellent mechanical and attenuation properties is critically important for both medical and nuclear power industries. Concrete continues to be the primary choice material for the shielding of gamma and neutron radiation in facilities such as nuclear reactors, nuclear waste repositories, spent nuclear fuel pools, heavy particle radiotherapy rooms, particles accelerators, among others. The purpose of this research was to manufacture cement pastes modified with magnetite and samarium oxide and evaluate the feasibility of utilizing them for shielding of gamma and neutron radiation. Two different experiments were conducted to accomplish these goals. In the first …