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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.
Kenji Takeuchi, Michael Y. Young, Lawrence E. Hochreiter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 112 | Number 2 | October 1992 | Pages 170-180
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE112-170
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Wallis’ flooding correlation is generalized for both small and large pipes by the use of the critical Kutateladze number. A drift flux correlation is then obtained that is tangential to the generalized flooding curve. A simple function of void fraction for the correlation parameter is sufficient to provide good agreement with steam generator test data, without using flow regime maps. After the drift flux correlation is determined with the large-pipe test, it is implemented in the TRAC-PD2 computer code to be tested against the flooding curve for a small-diameter pipe. The Chexal-Lellouche formulas are also applied to the data analysis, and the results are compared with the present correlations. Discussion is extended to the Zuber-Findlay method of data analyses for the drift velocity and the distribution parameter, in relation to the flooding curve.