Development of phenomena identification and ranking table for Westinghouse lead fast reactor's safety

J Liao, P Ferroni, RF Wright, U Bachrach… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Westinghouse Lead-cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) is a medium-size, passively
safe, economic, Gen-IV nuclear reactor. An important effort within the Westinghouse LFR …

Design of specimen holders for flow accelerated corrosion experiments in molten lead with numerical evaluation of pressure losses

K Talaat, MM Hassan, C Cakez, S Ghosh… - … Engineering and Design, 2021 - Elsevier
A material corrosion test loop (“Lobo Lead Loop”) has been established at the University of
New Mexico to investigate the compatibility of structural materials with flowing molten lead …

Lagrangian investigation of convective mass transfer of dissolved elements at specimen boundaries in a flowing molten lead loop

K Talaat, O Anderoglu - Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Mass transfer is the dominant mode of structural material corrosion in energy systems
employing heavy liquid metal coolant such as lead-cooled reactors. Modeling efforts in the …