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Supreme Court rules against Texas in interim storage case
The Supreme Court voted 6–3 against Texas and a group of landowners today in a case involving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing of a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, reversing a decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to grant the state and landowners Fasken Land and Minerals (Fasken) standing to challenge the license.
Sandra M. Sloan, Yassin A. Hassan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 89 | Number 2 | February 1990 | Pages 177-182
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34344
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The results generated from the IBM version of RELAP5/MOD2 are compared with the experimental data of an International Atomic Energy Agency standard problem exercise. The standard problem exercise data were that of a 7.4% break loss-of-coolant accident conducted at a test facility in Hungary. The United States did not formally participate in this exercise, whose aim was to assess the capabilities of computer codes and modeling techniques and in which a total of 17 organizations from 12 countries participated. The results obtained by execution of RELAP5/MOD2 on the IBM-3090 computer for upper plenum pressure, core inlet and outlet coolant temperature, and secondary-side pressure differed slightly during the latter part of the transient, but in general compared favorably to the experimental data. The magnitude of the cold-leg mass flow rate was underpredicted by the code.