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DOE, General Matter team up for new fuel mission at Hanford
The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (EM) on Tuesday announced a partnership with California-based nuclear fuel company General Matter for the potential use of the long-idle Fuels and Materials Examination Facility (FMEF) at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
According to the announcement, the DOE and General Matter have signed a lease to explore the FMEF's potential to be used for advanced nuclear fuel cycle technologies and materials, in part to help satisfy the predicted future requirements of artificial intelligence.
F. W. Staub, N. Zuber, G. Bijwaard
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 30 | Number 2 | November 1967 | Pages 279-295
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17338
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Experimental data are presented on the transient response of the vapor volumetric concentration in a boiling liquid. The experiments were conducted with Refrigerant-22 in forced upward flow through an electrically heated circular tube. The experiments were performed by oscillating the power input to the metal test section while maintaining a constant discharge pressure and a constant inlet liquid velocity. The amplitude of the power oscillations was varied between 5 and 40% of the average power at frequencies between 0.01 and 10 cps. Steady-state and transient void fractions were measured at six axial locations using a two-beam x-ray attenuation traverse method. Satisfactory agreement is shown between the results predicted by the void propagation equation and the experimental data. It is shown in particular that: 1) The rate of propagation of the voids as well as the wave form of the void disturbance as it propagates along the cluct can be predicted by means of kinematic waves 2) The void response depends upon the flow regime 3) Both the propagation velocity and the wave form can be predicted rather accurately if the effects of flow regime are taken into account. The loss of accuracy, introduced by not considering the effect of flow regime, is also demonstrated.