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DOE consortium begins new initiative aimed at growing fuel cycle
The U.S Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, through its Defense Production Act (DPA) Nuclear Fuel Cycle Consortium, has begun a new initiative aimed at securing the nation’s nuclear fuel supply chain.
Robert L. Buckley, Sudarshan K. Loyalka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 109 | Number 3 | March 1995 | Pages 346-356
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT95-A35083
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Models currently used in aerosol source codes for the gravitational collision efficiency are deficient in not accounting fully for two particle hydrodynamics (interception and inertia), which becomes important for larger particles. A computer code that accounts for these effects in calculating particle trajectories is used to find values of efficiency for a range of particle sizes. Simple fits to these data as a function of large particle diameter for a given particle diameter ratio are then obtained using standard linear regression, and a new model is constructed. This model is then implemented into two computer codes, AEROMECH and CONTAIN, Version 1.2. For a test problem, concentration distributions obtained with the new model and the standard model for efficiency are found to be markedly different.