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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
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.