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Fluor gets X-energy contract for Dow’s Seadrift project
Fluor Corporation has signed a contract to support X-energy’s planned small modular reactor project at Dow’s UCC Seadrift Operations facility in southern Texas. Fluor’s role will initially involve delivery of front-end loading stage 2 services, including project definition, strategic planning, feasibility assessment, cost control, and risk mitigation. X-energy plans to deploy four 80-MW SMRs to replace old infrastructure and supply electricity and industrial steam for the Seadrift facility, which produces materials for such applications as food packaging, footwear, wire and cable insulation, solar cell components, and medical and pharmaceutical packaging. X-energy submitted a construction permit application for the project, which is supported by the Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in March 2025.
Masumi Okumura, Kazuhisa Yuki, Hidetoshi Hashizume, Akio Sagara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 4 | May 2005 | Pages 1089-1093
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - First Wall, Blanket, and Shield | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A832
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In order to apply Flibe as a liquid blanket material, a heat transfer enhancement system is required because the Flibe is a high Prandtl number fluid. The purpose of this study is to visualize the detailed flow fields in the packed-bed tube, which is expected to be utilized for the heat transfer enhancement. The visualization inside the packed-bed tube from various angles is performed by using a PIV system with a refractive index matching technique. Pressure loss characteristics in the packed-bed tube whose sphere diameter is half the length of tube inside diameter are evaluated and it is found that a drag model could be suitable to estimate the pressure loss of the packed-bed tube.