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Weaver NRC reappointment gets OK, Senate vote next
The U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee has recommended Douglas Weaver be reappointed to a full five-year term on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after his current term expires on June 30.
The committee voted 15-4 in support of Weaver’s nomination on Wednesday, clearing the way for a final vote on the Senate floor. If the Senate votes to confirm Weaver, he would serve on the NRC through June 30, 2031.
Wolfgang Kastner, Gerd J. Seeberger
Nuclear Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | February 1983 | Pages 268-277
Technical Paper | Radiation Effects and Their Relationship to Geological Repository / Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33083
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The impact of a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) on a nuclear reactor is determined in its first phase by many events, one of them being the behavior of the reactor coolant pumps. In this case, a mixture of steam and water flows through the pumps. Experiments were carried out to examine the family of characteristics of geometrically scaled pumps (scale 1:5 and 1:4) within the relevant parameter range under such conditions. The presented results of steady-state experiments are compared with results of former projects. Besides flow and speed, the most significant parameters on two-phase pump performance are void fraction and system pressure. A brief comparison between steady-state and transient results is provided. The impact of the pump’s behavior on the LOCA is demonstrated on the basis of blowdown calculations using various pump models and two-phase pump data.