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Browsing Theses - Nuclear Engineering by Issue Date
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Critical Heat Flux (CHF) is one of the primary design constraints in a nuclear reactor. Increasing the CHF of water can enhance the safety margins of the current fleet of Light Water Reactors (LWRs) and/or increase their ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The global political climate has called for reductions to nuclear arsenals around the world. This thesis researches how potential deep cuts to the United States' large strategic nuclear arsenal would affect its current ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Sodium Fast Reactors are one of the three candidates of GEN-IV fast reactors. Fast reactors play an important role in saving uranium resources and reducing nuclear wastes. Conventional fast reactors rely on transuranic ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Using a unique set of diagnostics and modeling tools, a comprehensive study of impurity transport was performed on Alcator C-Mod L-mode discharges. A new, multi-pulse laser blow-off system was designed and constructed to ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)In high energy physics experiments, very high precision tracking of charged particles is needed. Solid state detectors achieve the high precision necessary to provide track and vertex reconstruction of the particles that ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Prostate cancer is currently the most frequently diagnosed cancer among men in the United States. Due to the low a/P ratio (on the order of 1.5-2.0) compared to normal tissue, the therapeutic benefit of hypo-fractionation ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)A beam delivery and transport system were designed for the use in MIT Materials Test Facility (M2TF). The purpose of this beam delivery system was to design a 36 MeV Proton Cyclotron for DPA accumulation and a 100 MeV ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)In this thesis we discuss measurements and modeling of minority heated fast-ion distributions in the Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequencies (ICRF) on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak. Analysis of fast-ions >100Te is important for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Sodium Fast Reactors (SFR) show promise as an effective way to produce clean safe nuclear power while properly managing the fuel cycle. Accurate computer modeling is an important step in the design and eventual licensing ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis focuses on several aspects of the Lower Hybrid (LH) wave physics, the common theme being the development of full-wave simulation codes based on Finite Element Methods (FEM) used in support of experiments carried ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Welded stainless steel piping is a component of boiling water reactors (BWRs). Reirculation and other large diameter piping are fabricated from Type 304 or 316 stainless steels. Delta ferrite is present in welds, because ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Large scale solar neutron and neutrino flux experiments require many tons of bulk liquid organic scintillator to take spectroscopic data of these energetic particles. However, material and chemical concerns make such ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Studies are underway in support of the MIT research reactor (MITR-II) conversion from high enriched Uranium (HEU) to low enriched Uranium (LEU), as required by recent non-proliferation policy. With the same core configuration ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Next generation nuclear technology calls for more advanced fuels to maximize the effectiveness of new designs. A fuel currently being studied for use in advanced light water reactors (LWRs) is uranium zirconium hydride ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This study develops a fundamentally new discrete generalized multigroup energy expansion theory for the linear Boltzmann transport equation. Discrete orthogonal polynomials are used, in conjunction with the traditional ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)During the past twenty-five years, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been progressing toward a more risk-informed, performance-based regulation. This regulatory framework has effectively supported the development ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)In realistic reactor scenarios, high temIperature plasmas will be composed of not only the fusion reactants and products, but also inpurities introduced purposefully or uninitentionally from plasma facing materials. In ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)A novel neutron spectrometer, called the Magnetic Recoil Spectrometer (MRS), was designed, built, and implemented on the OMEGA laser facility and the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to measure the neutron spectra from ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)A study of the prompt losses of injected neutral beam born fast ions was conducted on the DIII-D tokamak at General Atomics using scintillator based fast ion loss detectors (FILD) and a reverse orbit calculation code. ...
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Investigation of improved methods for assessing convergence of models in MCNP using Shannon entropy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Monte Carlo computationals methods are widely used in academia to analyze nuclear systems design and operation because of their high accuracy and the relative ease of use in comparison to deterministic methods. However, ...
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