Nuclear Engineering and Design 136 (1992) 409-411 409 North-Holland Contents of Volume 136 CONTENTS OF ISSUE 136(1&2) Preface, T7-E. Northup, J. Kupitz, A.C. Millunzi and C. Vivante ix Electricity as America enters the 21st Century, L.E. Mills l Global warming and nuclear power, D. Bodansky 7 Energy the enabler, in our changing world, F.A. Koomanoff 17 CO, and the world energy system: the role of nuclear power, W. Fulkerson and J.E. Jones Jr. 23 Nuclear safety and its deployment for human beings, K. Taketani 29 Trends in nuclear power reactor design and technology, A.J. Goodjohn and J. Kupitz 35 Prospects of SMSNR development in Switzerland and the influence of the evolution of district heating networks, K. Foskolos and R. Brogli 43 New perspectives and pre-feasibility results of the process heat HTR work, J. Singh and H. Barnert 51 Perspectives of modular high temperature gas-cooled reactor (MHTGR) on effluent management and siting, 7; Dunn, J. Cardito and J. Cunliffe 57 SBWR 200, a low-cost NPP with high inherent safety features, CA. Goetzmann and W. Griiner 65 Design of the Safe Integral Reactor, R.A. Matzie, J. Longo, R.B. Bradbury, K.R. Teare and M.R. Hayns 73 Process enhanced ultimate safety with the Geyser system, P. Doroszlai and Z. Révész 85 Chinese nuclear heating test reactor and demonstration plant, W. Dazhong, M. Changwen, D. Duo and L. Jiagui 91 Progress in design and verification of the AMPS nuclear-electric plant, J.S. Hewitt and A.F. Oliva 99 PRISM-liquid metal cooled reactor plant design and performance, W. Kwant and C.E. Boardman 111 Construction and operational experience with small and medium power reactors and expected improvements, P. Dastidar and K.V.M. Rao 121 Status and prospects of the HTR 500 based on the THTR 300 operation experience and recent R& D-work, W. Theymann 127 Integrated design of prestressed cast-iron pressure vessel and passive heat removal system for the reactor cell of a 200 MWth modular reactor, B. Beine, V. Kaminski and W. von Lensa 135 Passive heat removal from the core of small and medium sized pebble bed reactors, K. Kugeler, P.-W. Phlippen, P. Schmidtlein and R. Swatoch 143 The Nuclear Battery: a very small reactor power supply for remote locations, K.S. Kozier 149 Small molten-salt reactors with a rational thorium fuel-cycle, K. Furukawa, K. Mitachi and Y. Kato 157 PIUS — status and perspectives, 7. Pedersen 167 0029-5493 /92/$05.00 © 1992 — Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. All rights reserved Contents of Volume 136 Market prospects of modular HTR in EEC countries, F. Albisu, S.F. Garribba, J.C. Lefevre, D. Leuchs and C. Vivante Utility requirements for advanced LWR passive plants, J.M. Yedidia and W.R. Sugnet Needs and potential applications of small and medium-sized light water reactors in Japan, M. Uchiyama, K. Matsui and K. Yokoshiki Outlook for MHTGR project development, D.P. Hoffman and L.D. Mears ALMR fuel cycle economics, L.N. Salerno, M.L. Thompson, B.A. Hutchins and C. Braun Future potential of nuclear heat utilization in energy, economy and environment, Y. Tadokoro, O. Sato, S. Yasukawa and T. Hayashi An advanced nuclear power plant for heavy oil exploitation in the Venezuelan Orinoco Oil Belt, H. Carvajal-Osorio Utilization of process heat from the HTRM in the chemical and related industries, M.K. Schad Technical and economical efficiency of energy generation with the Geyser system, Z. Révész and P. Doroszlai Instructions to contributors CONTENTS OF ISSUE 136(3) Engineering Mechanics, Structures and Materials Axial crack propagation in fuel pin cladding tubes, /./. Ford Complex variable boundary element method for torsion of hollow shafts, S.J. Chou and M. Shamas-Ahmadi Investigation on cyclic crack growth behaviour of reactor pressure vessel steels placed and loaded in the core region of an operating boiling water reactor, D. Anders and J. Fohl Thermal-Hydraulics and Related Safety A phenomenological model of the thermal hydraulics of convective boiling during the quenching of hot rod bundles. Part I: Thermal hydraulic model, R. Nelson and C. Unal A phenomenological model of the thermal-hydraulics of convective boiling during the quenching of hot rod bundles. Part II: Assessment of the model with steady-state and transient post-CHF data, C. Unal and R. Nelson Phenomena-based thermal-hydraulic modeling requirements for systems analysis of a Modular High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor, G.E. Wilson, D.C. Wadsworth, B.G. Miller, L. Lommers, P. Kroeger, M. Olszewski, R. Kochan and K. Liebelt Development of a phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) for a postu- lated double-ended guillotine break in a production reactor, R.G. Hanson, G.E. Wilson, M.G. Ortiz and D.P. Griggs Measurement of three-dimensional wave form and interfacial area in an air—water stratified flow, H.C. Kang and M.H. Kim The limits of conditional stability for single-phase natural circulation with through- flow in a figure-of-eight loop, P.K. Vijayan and A.W. Date Contents of Volume 136 411 Extensions to the approximation functions for the fast calculation of saturated water properties, W.J. Garland, R.J. Wilson, J. Bartak, J. Cizek, M. Stasny and I. Zentrich 381 Reactor Engineering, Waste Technology, Instrumentation and Control Simulation of fast breeder reactor noise based on two-channel core model, 7. Tamaoki and R. Takahashi The effect of aluminum corrosion on the Advanced Neutron Source Reactor fuel design, G.L. Yoder, N.C.J. Chen, D.K. Felde, W.R. Nelson and R.E. Pawel Contents of Volume 136 Author index Subject index 417 Instructions to contributors 419