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Godzilla is helping ITER prepare for tokamak assembly
ITER employees stand by Godzilla, the most powerful commercially available industrial robot available. (Photo: ITER)
Many people are familiar with Godzilla as a giant reptilian monster that emerged from the sea off the coast of Japan, the product of radioactive contamination. These days, there is a new Godzilla, but it has a positive—and entirely fact-based—association with nuclear energy. This one has emerged inside the Tokamak Assembly Preparation Building of ITER in southern France.
Joel L. McDuffee, Arthur E. Ruggles
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 125 | Number 2 | February 1997 | Pages 232-242
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE97-A24270
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A model is presented for predicting the pressure gradient in partially developed subcooled boiling of water for velocities from 15 to 30 m/s and inlet peaked, nonuniform axial flux profiles with channel average flux values of 6 MW/m2. The partially and fully developed boiling regions are considered separately, however; the same general modeling technique is used for both. Several correlations for the void fraction at onset of significant void are considered, and their effect on the channel pressure drop is evaluated. The effect of nonuniform axial heat flux on the channel pressure drop is also evaluated. The model is compared with pressure drop data from the thermal-hydraulic test loop at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is found to agree with the data within 24%.