Nuclear Fuel Modelling During Power Ramp

Innovative Technologies for Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Nuclear Power

At the present stage of development no single energy resource or technology constitutes a panacea toaddress all issues. Therefore, it is necessary that all low-carbon and non-carbon emitting resources become anintegral part of an energy mix – as diversified as possible – to ensure energy security to the world during thepresent century. Available sources are low carbon fossil fuels, ...

Behaviors of Nuclear Fuel Cladding During RIA

Modelling of Fission Gas Behaviour in High Burnup Nuclear Fuel

The safe and economic operation of nuclear power plants (NPPs) requires that the behaviour and performance of the fuel can be calculated reliably over its expected lifetime. This requires highly developed codes that treat the nuclear fuel in a general manner and which take into account the large number of in uences on fuel behaviour, e.g. thermal, mechanical, chemical, etc. Although many mature...

Diffusion Methods for Wind Power Ramp Detection

The prediction and management of wind power ramps is currently receiving large attention as it is a crucial issue for both system operators and wind farm managers. However, this is still a problem far from being solved and in this work we will address it as a classification problem working with delay vectors of the wind power time series and applying local Mahalanobis K-NN search with metrics d...

Power Systems Without Fuel

The finiteness of fossil fuels implies that future electric power systems may predominantly source energy from fuel-free renewable resources like wind and solar. Evidently, these power systems without fuel will be environmentally benign, sustainable, and subject to milder failure scenarios. Many of these advantages were projected decades ago with the definition of the soft energy path, which de...