In March 2011, Japan was faced with the greatest natural disaster of its history. According to the Richter scale, the great earthquake magnitude of 8.9 was followed by a devastating tsunami, reaching 10-15 meters. After ...

Uranium needs to be enriched in order to be used in Light Water Reactors (LWR) as fuel cells. This process can be accomplished in enrichment facilities by increasing U-235 isotope mass content in the uranium element. ...

Pressure vessels are the most important components of nuclear reactors in the view of protecting its integrity. In the past 30 years there have been a great development and innovative studies about the fracture mechanics ...

In nuclear reactor analysis, understanding the effects of spacer grids on flow have an important place in determining the reactor thermal-hydraulic performance and ensuring that reactor works under reliable operating ...

This thesis focuses on the development of a framework and mathematical models to formulate generation expansion planning (GEP) models that include multiple objectives; by means of appropriately considering conventional and ...

In this work loss of coolant accident analysis was done by simulating an experiment which assumes a small break in cold leg between main circulation pump and pressure vessel. Behaviour of pressure, temperature, power, break ...

The purpose of this thesis is to develop 3+ level probabilistic safety analysis (PSA) method for severe accidents in nuclear power plants and to apply the developed method to Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant. For this purpose, ...

Due to many reasons such as its compact design, low initial investment costs, shorter installation times compared to conventional nuclear power plants, compatibility with nuclear disarmament treaty, compatibility of ...

Under the scope of international "Sever Fuel Damage (SFD)" program, Cora experiments are actualized to study the events of the severe accidents. Cora-13 out of pile experiment enlightened us about fuel failure mechanism, ...