About the Journal
Journal of Nuclear Engineering & Technology Journal of Nuclear Engineering & Technology [2277-6184(e)]Â is a peer-reviewed hybrid open access journal launched in 2011 and focused on the rapid publication of fundamental research papers on all areas of Nuclear Engineering & Nuclear Technology.
Focus & Scope
- Nuclear Reactor Engineering: Reactor design, reactor physics, neutron transport, reactor kinetics, criticality analysis, core design, reactor operation, reactor control, performance assessment, and advanced reactor concepts.
- Nuclear Power Systems: Nuclear power generation, plant operation, reactor systems, balance-of-plant engineering, plant efficiency, lifecycle management, modernization, and integration of nuclear power with electricity grids.
- Advanced Nuclear Reactors: Small modular reactors, microreactors, Generation III+ and Generation IV reactors, fast reactors, high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, molten-salt reactors, lead-cooled systems, and advanced reactor architectures.
- Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics: Coolant flow, heat transfer, boiling, two-phase flow, thermal margins, reactor cooling systems, computational fluid dynamics, accident thermal hydraulics, and heat-removal technologies.
- Reactor Physics and Neutronics: Neutron diffusion, transport theory, neutron spectrum, reactivity coefficients, burnup calculations, lattice physics, criticality, neutron economy, and Monte Carlo reactor analysis.
- Nuclear Fuel and Fuel Performance: Uranium and mixed-oxide fuels, ceramic fuels, advanced fuels, cladding materials, fuel fabrication, burnup, irradiation behavior, fuel performance modelling, and accident-tolerant fuels.
- Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Fuel fabrication, enrichment, spent-fuel management, reprocessing, recycling, partitioning, transmutation, fuel-cycle economics, and closed and open fuel-cycle strategies.
- Radioactive Waste Management: Low-, intermediate-, and high-level waste; waste minimization; conditioning; immobilization; vitrification; storage; transportation; geological disposal; and long-term waste safety.
- Spent Nuclear Fuel Management: Interim storage, dry-cask storage, wet storage, spent-fuel characterization, transport, recycling, disposal, and long-term stewardship.
- Nuclear Safety Engineering: Reactor safety systems, defense-in-depth, accident prevention, emergency core cooling, passive safety, containment systems, severe-accident management, and probabilistic safety assessment.
- Nuclear Risk and Reliability: Reliability engineering, fault-tree analysis, event-tree analysis, probabilistic risk assessment, human reliability, system availability, failure analysis, and safety culture.
- Radiation Protection and Dosimetry: Radiation dose assessment, shielding, exposure monitoring, occupational protection, environmental radiation, radiation-risk assessment, dosimetry, and radiation-protection standards.
- Radiation Detection and Instrumentation: Geiger-MĂĽller counters, scintillation detectors, semiconductor detectors, neutron detectors, radiation spectrometry, dosimetry instrumentation, reactor instrumentation, and radiation monitoring.
- Nuclear Instrumentation and Control: Reactor monitoring, control systems, digital instrumentation, sensor systems, plant automation, diagnostics, data acquisition, and intelligent nuclear-control technologies.
- Nuclear Materials: Reactor structural materials, fuel cladding, radiation damage, embrittlement, corrosion, swelling, irradiation-assisted degradation, ceramics, steels, and advanced nuclear materials.
- Materials under Irradiation: Radiation effects, defect formation, microstructural evolution, mechanical-property changes, helium and hydrogen effects, radiation hardening, and lifetime assessment.
- Nuclear Fusion Science and Engineering: Magnetic confinement, inertial confinement, plasma physics, fusion fuels, reactor engineering, plasma-facing materials, fusion blankets, tritium technologies, and fusion-energy systems.
- Plasma and High-Energy Applications: Plasma diagnostics, plasma-material interaction, high-temperature plasma systems, particle beams, ion sources, and nuclear-related plasma applications.
- Nuclear Fission Science: Fission processes, fission products, chain reactions, neutron-induced fission, fission yields, delayed neutrons, reactor applications, and fission-energy systems.
- Radioactivity and Nuclear Decay: Alpha, beta and gamma decay, radioactive isotopes, half-life measurement, decay schemes, nuclear spectroscopy, radioactive dating, and radionuclide characterization.
- Nuclear Chemistry and Radiochemistry: Radioisotope chemistry, actinide chemistry, separation science, radiochemical analysis, isotope production, tracer chemistry, and chemistry of nuclear fuel cycles.
- Medical Applications of Nuclear Technology: Nuclear medicine, SPECT, PET, scintigraphy, radionuclide therapy, radiopharmaceuticals, medical isotope production, radiation diagnostics, and therapeutic nuclear applications.
- Industrial Applications of Nuclear Technology: Industrial radiography, nondestructive testing, thickness and density gauging, radiotracers, sterilization, material modification, leak detection, and process monitoring.
- Agricultural and Food Applications: Food irradiation, mutation breeding, pest control, soil and fertilizer tracing, isotope techniques in agriculture, crop research, and food-safety applications.
- Nuclear Desalination and Process Heat: Nuclear-powered desalination, cogeneration, district heating, hydrogen production, industrial process heat, and integrated energy systems.
- Nuclear Energy and Hydrogen Production: High-temperature electrolysis, thermochemical hydrogen cycles, reactor-assisted hydrogen production, nuclear-renewable hybrid systems, and clean-fuel production.
- Nuclear Environmental Science: Environmental radioactivity, radionuclide transport, contamination assessment, remediation, ecosystem impacts, environmental monitoring, and nuclear-site restoration.
- Decommissioning and Site Remediation: Reactor decommissioning, dismantling, decontamination, waste characterization, site cleanup, contaminated-material management, and lifecycle planning.
- Nuclear Emergency Preparedness: Emergency planning, accident response, radiological consequence assessment, evacuation modelling, emergency communication, and post-accident recovery.
- Nuclear Cybersecurity and Digital Systems: Cybersecurity of reactor control systems, digital safety systems, secure instrumentation, anomaly detection, resilient nuclear infrastructure, and protection of digital plant systems.
- Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Engineering: Machine learning for reactor monitoring, fault diagnosis, predictive maintenance, core analysis, radiation detection, anomaly identification, and operational decision support.
- Digital Twins and Simulation in Nuclear Systems: Digital twins of nuclear plants, real-time simulation, multiphysics modelling, predictive maintenance, virtual commissioning, plant monitoring, and lifecycle optimization.
- Computational Nuclear Engineering: Monte Carlo methods, deterministic transport, multiphysics simulation, CFD, finite-element methods, uncertainty quantification, sensitivity analysis, and high-performance computing.
- Nuclear Data and Nuclear Measurements: Cross-section measurements, reaction rates, decay data, evaluated nuclear-data libraries, neutron measurements, spectroscopy, and experimental nuclear databases.
- Safeguards and Nuclear Material Accountancy: Nuclear-material measurement, safeguards technologies, material control and accounting, verification systems, secure fuel-cycle monitoring, and peaceful-use assurance.
- Nuclear Policy, Regulation and Governance: Nuclear regulatory frameworks, licensing, safety standards, waste policy, public acceptance, energy policy, international cooperation, and governance of civilian nuclear technology.
- Emerging Nuclear Technologies: Advanced fuels, microreactors, fusion-fission hybrid systems, autonomous reactor monitoring, digital nuclear plants, advanced isotope technologies, and next-generation nuclear engineering concepts.
Keywords
Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Reactors, Reactor Physics, Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Radioactive Waste Management, Radiation Protection, Nuclear Materials, Nuclear Fusion, Nuclear Medicine