Computational Researchers Develop Advanced Model to Improve Safety of Next-Generation Reactors
May 21, 2021
May 21, 2021
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 21 (TNSJou) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news:
By Laura Simmons
When one of the largest modern earthquakes struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the nuclear reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi automatically shut down, as designed. The emergency systems, which would have helped maintain the necessary cooling of the core, were destroyed by the subsequent tsunami. Because the reactor could no longer cool itself, . . .
By Laura Simmons
When one of the largest modern earthquakes struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the nuclear reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi automatically shut down, as designed. The emergency systems, which would have helped maintain the necessary cooling of the core, were destroyed by the subsequent tsunami. Because the reactor could no longer cool itself, . . .