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No impact from Savannah River radioactive wasps
The news is abuzz with recent news stories about four radioactive wasp nests found at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The site has been undergoing cleanup operations since the 1990s related to the production of plutonium and tritium for defense purposes during the Cold War. Cleanup activities are expected to continue into the 2060s.
Robert P. Wadkins, Richard G. Ambrosek
Nuclear Technology | Volume 97 | Number 3 | March 1992 | Pages 344-351
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34642
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Aluminum-clad fuel plates generally used in nuclear research reactors have unique heat transfer characteristics that require three-dimensional heat conduction modeling without large conservatism. A model, ATR SINDA, was written to interface with the thermal analyzer SINDA, for analysis of the Advanced Test Reactor fuel plates. Comparative analyses with two- and three-dimensional models show significantly higher fuel and coolant temperatures with the two-dimensional model. Comparative analyses also demonstrate that departure from nucleate boiling depends on material.