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Leading the charge: INL’s role in advancing HALEU production
Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
S. M. Ghiaasiaan, B. K. Kamboj, S. I. Abdel-Khalik
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 117 | Number 1 | May 1994 | Pages 22-32
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE94-A13566
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Gravity-driven countercurrent two-phase flow, in channels connected to a sealed tank at one end and open to the atmosphere at the other end, was analytically studied. This type of gravity-driven countercurrent two-phase flow can occur during the operation of passive safety coolant injection systems of advanced reactors. A mechanistic model was developed for the oscillating flow regime, which occurs in inclined channels with a side-entry configuration when the channel angle of inclination with respect to the horizontal plane is more than 10 deg and in channels with a bottom-entry channel-tank interphase. The model was shown to satisfactorily predict the experimental data.