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Alternative energy

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Projects and Programs

Smart Grid System Testbed Facility

Ongoing
The Smart Grid Testbed Facility is a unique set of interconnected modules on the NIST Gaithersburg site. Designed as a platform to measure and characterize

Publications

Pre-Conceptual Design of the NIST Neutron Source

Author(s)
Dagistan Sahin, Osman Celikten, Jeremy C. Cook, Abdullah Weiss, Thomas H. Newton, David Diamond, Charles Majkrzak, Hubert King, Joy Shen, Anil Gurgen, Lap-Yan Cheng, Peter Kohut, Cihang Lu, Athi Varuttamaseni
The National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR), a 20 MW thermal power Material Test Reactor (MTR), is located at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR)

Modeling Approach for the Design of the NIST Neutron Source

Author(s)
Abdullah Weiss, Osman Celikten, Anil Gurgen, Joy Shen, Dagistan Sahin, Yaniv Shaposhnik
The NIST Neutron Source, or NNS, is a proposed new research reactor at the NIST Center for Neutron Research to replace the currently operational, but aging

The Statistic and Deterministic Kettle

Author(s)
Yaniv Shaposhnik, Abdullah Weiss, Dagistan Sahin
In some accident scenarios, a nuclear reactor could be assumed to be similar to a kettle. Namely, the water inside the core, or in this case in the kettle, is

Software

AFUEBF Program

CALCULATION OF ANNUAL FUEL UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY OF RESIDENTIAL CENTRAL FURNACES AND BOILERSThe AFUEBF program available at this website can be used to

LoopDA

LoopDA is a natural ventilation design tool developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Version 3.0 is an update to the original version 1

Tools and Instruments