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New coolants, new fuels: A new generation of university reactors
Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
A. Ghazanfari, E. F. Hicken, A. Ziegler
Nuclear Technology | Volume 51 | Number 1 | November 1980 | Pages 21-26
Technical Paper | Reactor Siting | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32552
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Heat transfer from a heated tube to an unsteady dispersed flow was studied experimentally at post-dryout conditions for the following range of variables: mass flux, 1. 40 to 3.60 g/cm2. s; pressure, 1.20 to 1.60 bar; heat flux, 1.70 to 4.20 W/cm2; inlet quality, 0.50 to 1.0; flow cycle, 0 to 3 s−1. The experimental results show that at equivalent mean vapor quality no noticeable differences in the heat transfer data exist between a steady-state and a cyclically dispersed flow. A comparison of the experimental data with the wall temperature calculated using an analytical model indicates that the interphase heat transfer is of considerable importance and that the wall-droplet interaction can be neglected at qualities greater than 0.50.