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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.
Lloyd B. Thomas, Sudarshan K. Loyalka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | October 1982 | Pages 63-69
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A33052
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Estimation of gap conductance in nuclear reactor fuel rods requires values for thermal accommodation coefficients of several gases on Zircaloy, uranium-dioxide, stainless steel, and other surfaces. These values for UO2 have now been obtained by observing cooling rates of a UO2 sphere suspended in the several gases in a manner similar to the authors’ previous work on Zircaloy-2. These measurements are on so-called “engineering” surfaces, and no special attempt other than mild baking under high vacuum pumping was used to clean the surfaces.