Heat transfer during severe accidents is a critical area of research that underpins the safety and resilience of nuclear reactors. In these scenarios, core degradation may lead to the formation of ...

Gas‐cooled reactors, particularly those ... Heat transfer coefficient: A measure of convective heat transfer between a solid surface and a fluid per unit area per unit temperature difference.

The research project contains two stages: The safety case of an aged advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) was investigated at the first stage, and fundamental studies on the turbulence and heat transfer ...

offers a one-of-a-kind test facility which, without using nuclear materials, enables engineers to simulate the nuclear power process of heat transfer from a reactor to a power converter.

Conduction transfers heat via direct molecular collision. An area of greater kinetic energy will transfer thermal energy to an area with lower kinetic energy. Higher-speed particles will collide ...