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DOE selects first companies for nuclear launch pad
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy and the National Reactor Innovation Center have announced their first selections for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad: three companies developing microreactors and one developing fuel supply.
The four companies—Deployable Energy, General Matter, NuCube Energy, and Radiant Industries—were selected from the initial pool of Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program applicants, the two precursor programs to the launch pad.
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.