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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.
H. A. Morewitz, R. P. Johnson, C. T. Nelson, E. U. Vaughan, C. A. Guderjahn, R. K. Hilliard, J. D. McCormack, A. K. Postma
Nuclear Technology | Volume 46 | Number 2 | December 1979 | Pages 332-339
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-A32335
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Experimental and theoretical studies have been performed to characterize the behavior of airborne particulates (aerosols) expected to be produced by hypothetical core disruptive accidents (HCDAs) in liquid-metal fast breeder reactors (LMFBRs). These aerosol studies include work on aerosol transport in a 20-m-high, 850-m3 closed vessel at moderate concentrations; aerosol transport in a small vessel under conditions of high concentration (∼1 kg/m3), high turbulence, and high temperature (∼2000°C); and aerosol transport through various leak paths. These studies have shown that little, if any, airborne debris from LMFBR HCDAs would reach the atmosphere exterior to an intact reactor containment building.
