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The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC v. Texas: Supreme Court weighs challenge to NRC authority in spent fuel storage case
The State of Texas has not one but two ongoing federal court challenges to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that could, if successful, turn decades of NRC regulations, precedent, and case law on its head.
F. W. Wiffen, E. E. Bloom
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 1 | January 1975 | Pages 113-123
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24354
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Type 316 stainless-steel specimens have been irradiated in the High Flux Isotope Reactor at temperatures between 380 and 680°C to displacement damage levels up to 120 displacements per atom and transmutation produced helium contents up to 6090 ppm. Swelling in solution annealed samples was found to be smaller than predicted by the helium swelling models but larger than predicted by fast reactor irradiation results, and the temperature dependence of swelling was also not in agreement with either prediction. Cold work reduced swelling for irradiation temperature up to 600°C but was ineffective at 680°C. For both annealed and cold-worked materials, the swelling was nearly temperature independent between 380 and 600°C but increased markedly at 680°C. Present models are inadequate to explain the swelling results in the presence of these high helium concentrations.