Journal of Nuclear Engineering & Technology
Volume 5, Issue 1 (2015)
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Nuclear Material Accounting and Control of Non-Proliferation in Ghana
Abstract: The proliferation of nuclear weapons is a threat that also urges cooperation of safeguards at all levels. Safeguards is not restricted only to verify the declared nuclear materials but also to give transparent and confidential information about the nuclear fuel cycle and related activities to confirm the absence of undeclared activities related to the nuclear fuel cycle in States. In view of this only strong SSAC with enhanced capabilities, activities …
Published in Journal of Nuclear Engineering & Technology · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2015 · pp. 1–7 Read article
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Unified Relations that Connect Micro-Macro Physical Constants of Atom, Nucleus and The Universe
Abstract: The ultimate aim of unification is to understand the inter-relations that may exist in between the fundamental physical constants that rule the atom, nucleus and the universe. So far scientists proposed several interesting models. By assuming the strength of Schwarzschild interaction as ‘unity’ and by considering Avogadro number as a suitable scaling factor, the authors made an attempt to understand the basics of final unification and developed heuristic semi empirical …
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Pressure Swing Adsorption Process for Reduction of Argon-41 Release from Nuclear Reactor Exhaust Systems
Abstract: In several nuclear reactors, huge quantity of air (in the order of 10,000 cmh) is continuously passed to cool the calandria vault. This results in high radiation field due to argon-41. It is necessary to isolate and recover argon from these environments, which can bring down the activity release to the atmosphere in attaining ALARA principle. Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technique has been employed by combining molecular sieves 5A (MS5A) …
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Thermodynamic Concept to Evaluate the Performance of Organic Base Ion Exchange Resins Purolite NRW-5050 and Indion-870 Using Short-Lived Radioisotopes
Abstract: The present paper deals with application of short-lived radiotracer isotopes to understand the performance of Purolite NRW-5050 (nuclear grade) and Indion-870 (non-nuclear grade) anion exchange resins. The performance evaluation was done based on thermodynamics of iodide and bromide ion-isotopic exchange reactions. It was observed that for Purolite NRW-5050 resins during the bromide ion-isotopic exchange reaction, the enthalpy and energy of activation values calculated were 3287.8 and 5869.3 J.mol-1 respectively, which …
Published in Journal of Nuclear Engineering & Technology · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2015 · pp. 8–19 Read article