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The past few years have seen a concerted effort from many U.S. states to encourage nuclear development. The momentum behind nuclear-friendly policies has grown considerably, with many states repealing moratoriums, courting nuclear developers and suppliers, and in some cases creating advisory groups and road maps to push deployment of new nuclear reactors.
Songtao Yin, Hongdong Zhen, Lei Zhang, Bo Cheng, Ningning Wang, Haijun Wang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 193 | Number 12 | December 2019 | Pages 1403-1410
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2019.1642675
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Safety analyses of pressurized water reactors and boiling water reactors in the event of small-break loss-of-coolant accidents strongly depend on leakage rate predictions using two-phase critical flow models. The paper aims to revise the critical flow criterion and consider the nonequilibrium phenomena of critical flows in constructing a modified two-phase critical flow model. The model predictions exhibit strong similarities with the experimental values, with prediction deviations of 14.4% for mass fluxes and 19.3% for outlet pressure. The compiled code, according to the proposed model, can be exploited in pressure pipeline designs, providing the theoretical basis for leak-before-break analyses.