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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 100 | Number 2 | October 1988 | Pages 89-104
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A29019
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Experimental data are compared to calculations with a one-dimensional computer code (DUESE). In a systematic study, two-phase flow models (homogeneous and drift-flux) and empirical parameters in constitutive correlations of different code versions were tested. Special attention was given to the pressure rise in the diffuser, which could be calculated adequately only with the drift-flux correlation taken from the SOLA-DF code., Velocity data for choked flow conditions are compared to four different two-phase sound velocity models, which give the best agreement with the equilibrium sound velocity.