Nuclear Energy Insight

Nuclear Energy Insight (1999a), It s Official First U.S. Nuclear Plant Is Sold, August, pp. 1-2. 

Nuclear Energy Insight (1999b), One on One Entergy Corp. s Don Hintz Sees Competitive Nuclear Power Plants in America s Energy Future, August, pp. 3-4. 

Nuclear Energy Insight (2000a), Industry Consolidation Pace Quickens, pg. 3. 

The long-term vision of many professionals in the field entails a proliferation-free nuclear energy economy in which little or no waste is stored or released into the environment and all potential energy values in spent nuclear fuel are recycled. This text opens a window on that possibility, offering insight from world leaders on the cutting edge of nuclear research. 

Rather than seek to consider nuclear energy policy in each of the 12 most recent members of the EU we shall devote the rest of this chapter to considering two specific examples, Romania and Lithuania, which between them illustrate some of the most resonant and provocative policy insights. 

In the development of a new correlation method, microstructural characterization of the surveillance materials of some PWR plants was also performed in order to understand the embrittlement mechanism of RPV steels with different Cu contents. At the same time, another test reactor irradiation project, the PLIM project, was also conducted by Japan Nuclear Energy Safety (JNES), where extensive microstructural characterization of base metals and weld metals with a wide range of chemical compositions in terms of Cu and Ni was performed using APT, transmission electron microscopy and positron annihilation to obtain new insights with the embrittlement mechanism at high fluences.The mechanism of embrittlement identified or confirmed in these projects was summarized as follows ... 

Two presentations, one from the USA and one from the Russian Federation, addressed the complete nuclear energy systems, including both NPPs based on small reactors without onsite refuelling and regional fuel cycle centres or facilities. The insight of these presentations was that a minimization of the overall energy product cost could result from an optimization of the fuel cycle cost as well as the NPP cost, or may rely on finding an optimum system combination of the NPPs with SMRs and the associated fuel cycles. 

The RBEC-M is a lead-bismuth cooled fast reactor with a high level of primary coolant natural circulation and a gas lift system in the primary circuit to provide the supply of an inert gas (e.g. argon) in the coolant under the core, see Annex XXIII. This concept is developed with an insight of future multi-component nuclear energy systems, where it might be used for breeding or the adjustment of fissile material flows. Conceptual studies for the RBEC-M are performed in the Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute (Moscow, Russia). 

Concluding, we point out that the application of the idea of dynamical symmetry and supersymmetry to odd-odd nuclei leads to a series of energy formulas, and gives a new insight into the nuclear structure. Therefore, more detailed studies of odd-odd nuclei are highly desirable. 

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