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OECD NEA meeting focuses on irradiation experiments
Members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) joint undertaking gathered from September 29 to October 3 in Ketchum, Idaho, for the technical advisory group and governing board meetings hosted by Idaho National Laboratory. The FIDES-II Framework aims to ensure and foster competences in experimental nuclear fuel and structural materials in-reactor experiments through a diverse set of Joint Experimental Programs (JEEPs).
A. M. Shahub, M. M. R. Williams
Nuclear Technology | Volume 86 | Number 1 | July 1989 | Pages 80-86
Technical Note | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34286
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The importance of Brownian and gravitational collision efficiencies in aerosol coagulation is examined through results from the AEROSIM computer code, which models the behavior of nuclear aerosol particles in a closed volume. Viscous, retarded London van der Waals and electrostatic forces are included in the NACE computer program for the calculation of collision efficiency. Results reveal that the minimum ratios of particle concentration with and without calculated collision efficiencies are 0.51 for Brownian coagulation plus sedimentation, 0.01 for gravitational coagulation plus sedimentation, and 0.08 when all the mechanisms are included.