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Anfield Energy to start construction of Utah uranium mine
British Columbia-based Anfield Energy has scheduled a groundbreaking on November 6 at its uranium and vanadium Velvet-Wood mine, located in southeastern Utah’s Lisbon Valley. According to Corey Dias, the company’s CEO, it will be "more than a groundbreaking—it’s a bold declaration of Anfield’s readiness to help fuel the American nuclear renaissance.”
G. Sonnemann
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 4 | April 1959 | Pages 242-247
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25591
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Analysis of burnout heat flux is undertaken by considering the burnout heat flux to be the sum of the flux required to initiate nucleate boiling and of an incremental flux required to cause burnout. For data taken at a pressure of 2000 psia, the method of analysis correlated the majority of the data with an accuracy of ±17 per cent.
