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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

ANS Update: Dr. G. Ivan Maldonado presents ANS comments at TVA Board hearing

Dr. G. Ivan Maldonado presents ANS comments at TVA Board hearing

By pbowersox on Sep 11, 2012 05:00 am

On August 16, G. Ivan Maldonado, PhD, Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering with the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, attended a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board Meeting on behalf of the American Nuclear Society to present comments on the use the of … Continue reading
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Plant cooling a stumbling block?

By pbowersox on Sep 11, 2012 01:00 am

By Howard Shaffer When the heat released by nuclear fission is used in a steam plant to produce mechanical power, the second law of thermodynamics dictates that a large part of the heat must be rejected to the environment. Most … Continue reading
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