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Five states named Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus finalists
Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah are the finalists to potentially host Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, the Department of Energy announced today.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright has signed memorandums of understanding with the five states to continue exploring opportunities to host these campuses, envisioned as federal–state partnerships to support work across the nuclear fuel life cycle, with a primary focus on fuel fabrication, enrichment, spent fuel reprocessing or recycling, separations, and radioactive waste management.
Zhipeng Feng, Fenggang Zang, Shuai Liu, Huanhuan Qi, Xuan Huang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 3 | March 2023 | Pages 428-442
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2118478
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
To further investigate fluid-structure–interaction problems that occur in the nuclear field such as the behavior of pressurized water reactor fuel rods, steam generator tubes, and other heat exchanger tubes, the flow-induced vibrations of two flexible tubes in tandem, side-by-side, and in staggered arrangements are investigated. First, a three-dimensional numerical model for fluid-structure interaction of flexible tubes in cross flow is developed. It is a three-dimensional fully coupled approach with solving the fluid flow and the structure vibration simultaneously. Second, results are presented in the form of force coefficients, dynamic response, trajectories, and wake vortex pattern. The effects of pitch ratio, tube arrangement, and flow velocity on the vibration response and the flow field characteristic are investigated. Critical pitch and critical velocity are obtained successfully. The critical velocity depends heavily on pitch ratio. Under the same pitch ratio and velocity, the side-by-side tubes have the maximum value of fluid force and vibration amplitude, followed by the staggered tubes the and tandem tubes in sequence. The trajectory and wake vortex pattern are highly dependent on tube arrangement, pitch ratio, and flow velocity.