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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
Franz J. Erbacher, Klaus Wiehr
Nuclear Technology | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1988 | Pages 153-160
Technical Paper | Advanced Light Water Reactor / Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A35555
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The work performed in the FLORESTAN program at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center on the reflooding and deformation behavior of a tight-lattice fuel rod bundle in a loss-of-coolant accident of an advanced pressurized water reactor (APWR) is described. The present forced-feed reflooding tests in an extremely tight bundle with a pitch-to-diameter ratio p/d = 1.06 show a very different thermal-hydraulic behavior compared to a standard pressurized water reactor. Blind code predictions have shown that most thermal-hydraulic computer codes do not adequately predict the reflooding behavior of this type of bundle. Deformation tests on stainless steel cladding tubes have shown that those with integral helical fins limit the burst strains and have high potential for APWR fuel rod cladding.
