When assessing the radiological consequences of postulated accident scenarios, it is primary interest to determine amount radioactive fission gas accumulated in fuel rod free volume. The state-of-the-art semi-empirical approach (ANS 5.4–2010) reviewed and compared with a mechanistic evaluate release gases. At intra-granular level, diffusion-decay equation handled by spectral diffusion algorithm...

Thermal history and apatite fission-track ages were determined for the Kaleybar, Razgah and Bozqush alkaline intrusions which display Eocene-Oligocene stratigraphic age. These subduction-related intrusions are located in the Alborz-Azarbaijan magmatic belt which is characterized by a Paleogene magmatic flare-up associated with extensional/transtensional tectonism. The mean of Uranium content an...

This combined numerical/laboratory study investigates the effect of stratification form on shoaling characteristics internal solitary waves propagating over a smooth, linear topographic slope. Three types are investigated, namely (i) thin tanh (homogeneous upper and lower layers separated by pycnocline), (ii) surface (linearly stratified layer overlaying homogeneous layer) (iii) broad (continuo...

This paper reviews fission safety design principles and approaches for coupling inertial confinement fusion (ICF) to a subcritical fission blanket, in Laser ICF Fission Energy (LIFE) power plants. LIFE power plants use fuel derived from either spent fuel from fission reactors, or from natural uranium or thorium. By using fusion neutrons, LIFE plants can fission a large fraction of the heavy met...

As a droplet moves, due to evaporation at the surface, the droplet size is gradually reduced. Due to decreasing the size of the droplets moving in the spray core, the surface charges become closer and the repulsive force between the charges increases. When the Coulombic force overcomes the surface tension force (Rayleigh instability) the droplet breaks into smaller droplets (Coulomb fission). T...

Nuclear transmutation has been reported by lots of experiments. The features of this phenomenon are the production of elements which shows fission-like distribution and their anomalous isotopic ratios or the selective Z and mass changes [1]. To analyze this phenomenon, the selective channel scission (SCS) model has been proposed and improved [2]. The SCS model is powerful and can predict the fi...

Actin polymerization is important for vesicle fission during clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME), and it has been proposed that actin polymerization may promote vesicle fission during CME by providing direct mechanical forces. However, there is no direct evidence in support of this hypothesis. In the present study, the role of actin polymerization in vesicle fission was tested by analyzing the ...

Studies of nuclear fission have been ongoing since the discovery of the process in 1938 by Hahn and Strassmann [1]. The actinide nuclide Pu has long been a case of interest, as spontaneous fission presents itself as a decay mechanism with significant probability, relative to other isotopes in the actinide region. This allows for quantitative comparisons between spontaneous and induced fission [...