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Wright officially sworn in for third term at the NRC
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently announced that David Wright, after being nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate, was ceremonially sworn in as NRC chair on September 8.
This swearing in comes more than a month after Wright began his third term on the commission; he began leading as chair July 31. His term will conclude on June 30, 2030.
Askar A. Gubaidullin, Bal Raj Sehgal
Nuclear Technology | Volume 138 | Number 1 | April 2002 | Pages 90-92
Technical Note | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3280
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A semiempirical correlation for an estimate of crust thickness in a molten pool is presented and validated against published experimental data. The proposed correlation between the dimensionless crust thickness and the Biot and the Prandtl numbers has been developed as [overbar]* = 14.49BiPr -0.074. A scaling methodology is discussed to analyze the thermal resistance of the crust. The results are of interest for the corium melt coolability in a postulated severe accident scenario in a light water reactor.
