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MARVEL team shares lessons learned through microreactor development
On June 1 at the American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference in Denver, Colo., a team from Idaho National Laboratory presented a session titled “Lessons Learned from MARVEL Reactor Fabrication.” The presentation highlighted challenges that arose as they moved from design to manufacturing and assembly, with a focus on reactor part fabrication, Stirling engine implementation, and reactivity control system development.
S. M. Sami, T. Duong
Nuclear Technology | Volume 85 | Number 1 | April 1989 | Pages 98-108
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34231
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The choking criterion for nonhomogeneous nonequilibrium two-phase flow has been obtained by solving the two-fluid conservation equations. The method of characteristics is employed to predict the critical flow conditions. Numerical results revealed that the proposed model reliably predicted the critical two-phase flow phenomenon and compared well with existing experimental data as well as with other analytical models.