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Nano to begin drilling next week in Illinois
It’s been a good month for Nano Nuclear in the state of Illinois. On October 7, the Office of Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the company would be awarded $6.8 million from the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act to help fund the development of its new regional research and development facility in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.
Yi-Shung Chen, William S. Haigh, L. Harold Sullivan, Stewart R. Fischer
Nuclear Technology | Volume 46 | Number 2 | December 1979 | Pages 199-204
Technical Paper | Nuclear Power Reactor Safety (Presented at the ENS/ANS International Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, October 16–19, 1978) / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32317
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RELAP4/MOD6 is the most recent modification in the series of RELAP4 computer programs developed to describe the thermal-hydraulic conditions attendant to postulated transients in light water reactor systems. The major new features in RELAP4/MOD6 include best-estimate pressurized water reactor (PWR) reflood transient analytical models for core heat transfer, local entrainment, and core vapor superheat, and a new set of heat transfer correlations for PWR blowdown and reflood. These new features were used for a test prediction of the Kraftwerk Union three-loop PRIMAR KREISLAUF (PKL) Reflood Test K5A. The results of the prediction were in good agreement with the experimental thermal and hydraulic system data. Comparisons include heater rod surface temperature, system pressure, mass flow rates, and core mixture level. It is concluded that RELAP4/MOD6 is capable of accurately predicting transient reflood phenomena in the 200% cold-leg break test configuration of the PKL reflood facility.