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In quickest review, NRC approves 20-year renewal for Robinson
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed the Robinson nuclear power plant’s operating license in record time, the agency announced last week.
The subsequent license renewal process for the Hartsville, S.C., facility was completed within 12 months, according to the NRC. The process has typically taken 18 months. This was the first license renewal review conducted under the directive of Executive Order 14300 to streamline processes like renewing operating licenses.
Hideo Nakamura, Yasuteru Sibamoto, Yoshinari Anoda, Yutaka Kukita, Kaichiro Mishima, Takashi Hibiki
Nuclear Technology | Volume 125 | Number 2 | February 1999 | Pages 213-224
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT99-A2943
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High-frame-rate neutron radiography is used to observe the behavior of a high-temperature (773 K) molten Pb-Bi alloy dropped into a vessel that contains water. Experiments are also performed with an empty vessel. Using high-speed cameras combined with image intensifiers and a high-flux neutron source, the interactions among the molten and solidified alloy with water and steam are visualized at imaging rates of 500 and 125 frames/s. The behavior of the melt and steam bubbles is observed clearly in contrast to water. Observation of AuCd3 tracer particles in the molten metal dropped into the vessel that contains water is also successful. The velocity distribution in the melt is measured successfully by means of particle image velocimetry (PIV) using tracer particles. This visualization technique proves to be a promising tool to observe and measure the rapid and complex phenomena of a metal-gas-liquid mixture.