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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.
Hasna J. Khan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 90 | Number 2 | May 1990 | Pages 125-141
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34409
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The distribution parameter of the drift-flux model has been developed for a rectangular channel and a simulated boiling water reactor (BWR) subchannel. The void fraction prediction by the subchannel drift-flux code CANAL is well demonstrated for heated rectangular channels. Intrasubchannel flow and void profiles are considered for subchannel model development. Distribution parameter C0 is found to be very sensitive to variation of the geometric parameters and subchannel types. Since void fraction measurements corresponding to the rectangular subchannel of a BWR rod bundle are unavailable at present, assessment of the derived models remains to be performed.
