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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
Udo Graf
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 129 | Number 3 | July 1998 | Pages 305-310
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-A1984
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The German ATHLET thermal-hydraulic system code has been coupled with a two-dimensional module simulating the downcomer of a pressurized water reactor. To be efficient, this coupling had to be implicit in time. The countercurrent two-phase flow of water and steam in the downcomer of a reactor pressure vessel was simulated using this combined code system. The implicit coupling procedure, as well as the results of a postcalculation of an experiment of the Upper Plenum Test Facility, are described.