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Pending, passed, and coveted legislation involving nuclear energy made their way across multiple state capitol buildings in the month of April. Here are a few notable updates from California, Iowa, Kentucky, and Missouri.
Neil E. Todreas, James A. Turi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 13 | Number 1 | January 1972 | Pages 36-52
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31065
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The available experimental data applicable to mixing rates between subchannels in wire wrapped liquid metal fast breeder reactor fuel assemblies are reviewed. A rate of mass mixing between interior subchannels of 0.03 in terms of the dimensionless ratio β (i.e., the ratio of the mixing flow rate per unit length per unit of spacing between pins to the axial mass flux) is recommended as conservative for the typical geometries of present U.S. fuel bundles. The quantitative dependence of mass mixing rates with key variables of subchannel geometry, wire lead, and pin pitch to diameter ratio is presented and discussed.