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UM conducts molten salt experiment
For 2,300 hours, the molten salt pump Shaft Seal Test Facility (SSTF) operated at the University of Michigan’s Thermal Hydraulics Laboratory, according to an article from UM. The large-scale experiment was designed to evaluate shaft seal performance in high-temperature pump systems. Fewer than 10 facilities worldwide have successfully operated fluoride or chloride salts for more than 100 hours using over 10 kilograms of material.
A. A. Harms, C. F. Forrest
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 46 | Number 3 | December 1971 | Pages 408-413
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A22377
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The factors contributing to the bias introduced in the experimental determination of void fractions in liquid flow systems by methods of radiation diagnosis are being examined. It is shown that error bounds for the radiation transmittance and for the void fraction can be established for certain well-defined void variations. The general validity of the analytical results has been experimentally tested and confirmed. In addition, analytical criteria are derived which relate radiation attenuation and certain parameters of the radiation diagnostic facility to the dynamic voiding effects.
