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3D Printing Possibilities: Additive Manufacturing Impact Limiters for Transportation Casks
With the significant advances in additive manufacturing (AM), otherwise known as 3D printing, Orano Federal Services and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte recently re-examined the capabilities to print impact limiters for transportation casks used to ship spent nuclear fuel. Impact limiters protect transportation casks (sometimes also referred to as transportation overpacks) and their contents during an accident. Impact limiter designs must withstand testing based on a certain significance level of hypothetical accidents, including drops, crushing, fires, and immersion in water.
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.