5 papers
Thermophysical and mechanical properties of UFe fabricated by spark plasma sintering
Yifan Sun, Hironobu Nakamura, Daisuke Okada +3
Following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011, core meltdown produced fuel debris whose safe retrieval and management require reliable thermophysical…
Lattice-to-Total Thermal Conductivity Ratio: A Phonon-Glass Electron-Crystal Descriptor for Data-Driven Thermoelectric Design
Yifan Sun, Zhi Li, Tetsuya Imamura +3
Thermoelectrics (TEs) are promising candidates for energy harvesting with performance quantified by figure of merit, . To accelerate the discovery of high- materials, effor…
Thermophysical properties of spark plasma sintered UCo: a comparison with machine learning predictions
Yifan Sun, Hironobu Nakamura, Masaya Kumagai +2
Uranium dioxide has been widely used as a nuclear fuel in commercial light water reactors due to its high uranium density and chemical stability. However, its relatively low therma…
Technical Overview of Recent Developments in Small Modular Reactors in the United States
Yifan Sun, Ken Kurosaki
Small modular reactors (SMRs) are a class of advanced nuclear fission reactors characterized by their compact core size (typically <300 MWe) and passive safety systems. Their modul…
Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis on Japanese Online Media's Coverage of Nuclear Energy
Yifan Sun, Hirofumi Tsuruta, Masaya Kumagai +1
Thirteen years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, Japan's nuclear energy accounts for only approximately 6% of electricity production, as most nuclear plants…