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The journey of the U.S. fuel cycle
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
While most big journeys begin with a clear objective, they rarely start with an exact knowledge of the route. When commissioning the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson didn’t provide specific “turn right at the big mountain” directions to the Corps of Discovery. He gave goal-oriented instructions: explore the Missouri River, find its source, search for a transcontinental water route to the Pacific, and build scientific and cultural knowledge along the way.
Jefferson left it up to Lewis and Clark to turn his broad, geopolitically motivated guidance into gritty reality.
Similarly, U.S. nuclear policy has begun a journey toward closing the U.S. nuclear fuel cycle. There is a clear signal of support for recycling from the Trump administration, along with growing bipartisan excitement in Congress. Yet the precise path remains unclear.
Yeh-Chan Ahn, Byung Do Oh, Moo Hwan Kim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 152 | Number 1 | October 2005 | Pages 54-70
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT05-A3660
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The theory for the current-sensing electromagnetic flowmeter was newly developed. The current-sensing flowmeter can achieve the measurement with a high temporal resolution so that it can be applied to measure the flows with fast transients like two-phase flow. The signal prediction and the calibration of the current-sensing flowmeter in simplified two-phase flow were conducted, and the given calibration process would be an important step toward the calibration for real two-phase flow. The three-dimensional virtual potential distributions for the electrodes of finite size were computed for single-phase flow, annular flow, and modeled slug flow. With the gradient of the virtual potential, weight functions related to each flow pattern were deduced. A flow pattern coefficient f was introduced to simplify the calibration process for two-phase flow and measured with the impedance spectroscopy method. In order to measure the local mean velocity of a developing flow using the electromagnetic flowmeter, a localization parameter was modeled and compared with experimental data.