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The drive to Kairos Power’s reactor demonstration site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not only scenic—it’s historic. Nearly 85 years ago, roughly 30,000 construction workers transformed orchards and farmland into a key Manhattan Project site. Depending on your route, you may pass by one of the three gatehouses that were once military checkpoints controlling access to Atomic Energy Commission production facilities.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 114 | Number 3 | July 1993 | Pages 179-189
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE93-A24032
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Under actual reactor conditions, the mechanical characteristics of nuclear fuel are particularly affected by thermal expansion of the fuel pellets. The results of an experiment studying the vibration behavior of nuclear fuel under reactor conditions are presented. The experiment was conducted in an experimental reactor in a two-phase flow test loop simulating a Canada deuterium uranium (CANDU) reactor fuel channel. The effect of fuel power in particular was investigated. The natural frequency of the fuel elements increased by ∼50% at full power. The effect of the fuel channel parameters such as flow velocity, steam quality, and pressure were also investigated.