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Framatome begins expansion of facilities in Virginia
An official groundbreaking last week at Framatome’s Mill Ridge Road facility, in Lynchburg, Va., marks the start of a $50 million expansion and an eventual addition of 500 employees, according to the nuclear company.
Kazuaki Kitoh, Seiichi Koshizuka, Yoshiaki Oka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 135 | Number 3 | September 2001 | Pages 252-264
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT01-A3220
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In past designs of supercritical water-cooled reactors, the core flow rate has had to be kept high enough to satisfy the minimum deterioration heat flux ratio criterion where the deterioration heat flux is a function of the core flow rate. Refinement of transient criteria related to the fuel rod design is undertaken, and new dominant transient criteria are proposed in which the cladding temperature is <610°C for Type 316 stainless steel and <840°C for Inconel 700 to reduce the balance of the plant and improve the thermal efficiency. The safety analysis for the high-temperature core using these new criteria is carried out. All the analyzed events satisfy the new criteria. A new formula for the heat transfer correlation at supercritical pressure is proposed based on numerical simulation.