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This spring, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced that it had achieved a major milestone by completing commissioning of the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) facility—a new, state-of-the-art, large-scale ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the DOE’s geologic repository for defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in New Mexico.
M. E. Nelson, J. H. Rust, F. A. Iachetta
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 37 | Number 2 | August 1969 | Pages 216-223
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A20680
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An analysis is made to determine the heat transfer characteristics for steady, fully developed flow of a heat-generating fluid between isothermal parallel plates. Axial conduction is not neglected and the velocity profile is assumed to be nonuniform in the transverse direction. The results indicate that axial conduction is a low Peclet-number thermal-entrance region effect and increases or decreases Nusselt numbers depending on the heat-source strength and the boundary conditions.
