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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.
J. Weisman, T. Ake, R. Knott
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 3 | November 1976 | Pages 297-309
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26916
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The ability of one-dimensional momentum balances to predict behavior during two-phase oscillatory flow has been examined. Flow oscillations in a Freon-Freon vapor system were induced by cycling a three-way valve so as to divert a varying portion of the total flow from the test section. The data taken included the phase shift between the pressure and flow curves and the head fluctuation to flow fluctuation ratio. These data were compared with theoretical predictions obtained via the impedance method. Although some discrepancies between predictions and measurements were observed, the discrepancies were generally within the range of error associated with the measurement and analysis techniques used.