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Leading the charge: INL’s role in advancing HALEU production
Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
C.C. Meek, R. C. Doerner, W. J. Adams
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 81 | Number 4 | August 1982 | Pages 560-562
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21447
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Kalman filter methodology has been applied to an in-pile liquid-metal fast breeder reactor simulation experiment to obtain estimates of the fuel-clad thermal gap conductance. A transient lumped parameter model of the experiment is developed. An optimal estimate of the state vector chosen to characterize the experiment is obtained through the use of the Kalman filter. From this estimate, the fuel-clad thermal gap conductance is calculated as a function of time into the test and axial position along the length of the fuel pin.
