Saudi International Conference On Nuclear Power Engineering (SCOPE)

Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology is increasingly popular for its potential to provide clean, affordable, and dependable energy. However, implementing and adopting SMRs pose unique challenges and opportunities for nuclear safeguards. This paper provides an overview of these issues, including proliferation risk, safeguards implementation, resource constraints, novel technologies/designs,...

Worldwide, the demand of hydrogen has grown by threefold since 1975. Hydrogen is mainly produced from fossil fuels, due to lower costs compared to other production alternatives. Consequently, this industry resulted in the emission of about 830 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. In its effort to tackle this global issue, Saudi Arabia is considering the utilization of nuclear energy to...

This paper discusses the technology and usage of SMR technology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Implementing such technology is helpful and can facilitate meeting the 2030 vision, which states net zero carbon emissions by 2060. SMRs with around 300 MWe contain advanced passive safety to eliminate any possible risk. With their small size compared to large reactors, SMRs can be multi-unit...

Evaluation of Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) performances during accident conditions has been the main issue of research in nuclear fields during the last 40 years. Therefore, several complex system thermal-hydraulic codes have been developed for simulating the transient behavior of NPPs. Safety and performance analysis codes validation is required and important work that should be performed to...

This is a preliminary conceptual design configurations study for SMART Plus reactor vessel (RV) and steam generators (SGVs) for the purpose of enhancing its economic efficiency and safety by introducing innovative element technologies. To enhance the competitiveness of SMART, several element technologies have been suggested such as printed circuit steam generator (PCSG), in-vessel control...

The Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table (PIRT) of Thermal –Hydraulic (T-H) phenomena is used to identify the key phenomena associated with the intended application, then rank the relative importance and current state of knowledge for each identified phenomenon by the experts in the related field. This ranking provides guidance for code development and improvement for the specific...

“Thermal Hydraulic Performance Analysis of a Printed Circuit Steam Generator (PCSG) in Innovative Smart-Plus Reactor: A Proof of Concept Study”

The Printed Circuit Steam generator (PCSG) is a kind of Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger (PCHE) designed for steam generator application. The PCSG manufacturing process is similar to the PCHE. The PCSG was suggested to be used in the innovative...