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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
D. Y. Hsia, P. Griffith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 4 | August 1981 | Pages 431-437
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A21380
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Steam generator pressure drop versus flow rate instability during a loss-of-coolant accident in a pressurized water reactor has been investigated. The steam generator is simulated by four tubes, each with a different height, on top of a two-dimensional quarter-circle inlet plenum. This work deals with only an adiabatic air-water system. The pressure drop was found to be practically constant in the range of 3 jg 10 m/s. Within this range, the pressure drop depends only on the liquid flow rate. The plenum details do not matter. A model using an average flow for each tube does a good job in estimating the pressure drop. The flow distribution can be conservatively estimated by the proposed model based on a single, average tube pressure drop minimum.