Browsing Nuclear Systems Enhanced Performance Program (NSP) - Technical Reports by Title

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    • Feasibility Investigations for Risk-Based Nuclear Safety Regulation 

      Beer, B. C.; Golay, M. W.; Apostolakis, G. E. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems. Nuclear Systems Enhanced Performance Program, 2001-02)

    • Stress Corrosion Cracking and Crack Tip Characterization of Alloy X-750 in Light Water Reactor Environments 

      Gibbs, Jonathan Paul; Ballinger, Ronald; Ballinger, Ronald (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems. Nuclear Systems Enhanced Performance Program, 2011-09)
      Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) susceptibility of Inconel Alloy X-750 in the HTH condition has been evaluated in high purity water at 93 and 288°C under Boiling Water Reactor Normal Water Chemistry (NWC) and Hydrogen Water ...

    • A System Dynamics Model of the Energy Policymaking Process 

      Oggianu, Stella Maris; Hansen, Kent F. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems. Nuclear Systems Enhanced Performance Program, 2002-08)
      Electric energy is a fundamental commodity for any aspects of the modern world. However, there are many uncertainties in the sources of electricity that are going to be used in the future. Some of these uncertainties are ...

    • A System Dynamics Model of the Energy Policymaking Process 

      Oggianu, Stella Maris; Hansen, Kent F. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems. Nuclear Systems Enhanced Performance Program, 2002-08-01)
      Electric energy is a fundamental commodity for any aspects of the modern world. However, there are many uncertainties in the sources of electricity that are going to be used in the future. Some of these uncertainties are ...

    • Uncertainty And Sensitivity Analysis For Long-Running Computer Codes: A Critical Review 

      Langewisch, D. R. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems. Nuclear Systems Enhanced Performance Program, 2010-01)

    • A Unified Risk-Informed Framework to Assess the Proliferation Risk and License the Proliferation Performace of Nuclear Energy 

      d'Oro, Edoardo Cavalieri; Golay, Michael J. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems. Nuclear Systems Enhanced Performance Program, 2011-09)
      In order to strengthen the current non-proliferation regime it is necessary to guarantee high standards of security for the sites that use, store, produce, or reprocess special nuclear materials (SNM). The current surge ...

    • Use of Information Theory Techniques with System Dynamics Models 

      Middleton, Bobby D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems. Nuclear Systems Enhanced Performance Program, 2005-09)
      Research was done to show how the output distribution of a system with random variables changes as the input distributions and other parameters are changed. Using Information Theory techniques, these different input and ...