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The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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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.
L. Väth
Nuclear Technology | Volume 98 | Number 1 | April 1992 | Pages 44-53
Technical Paper | Fast Reactor Safety / Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34649
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The model for transient fission gas behavior in melting and molten fuel contained in the Karlsruhe code LAKU is revised to include the effect of capillary forces, which cause rapid gas bubble coalescence and the formation of big bubbles in the fuel at and beyond the liquidus. Some emphasis is also put on treating the transition from solid to liquid fuel; this is of importance for interpreting the less energetic experiments of the CABRI series and may also have a significant effect for slow transients. The LAKU model is reviewed and recent calculational results are presented.