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Savannah River marks the closure of another legacy waste tank
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has received concurrence from regulators that Tank 14 at the Savannah River Site has reached preliminary cease waste removal (PCWR) status after radioactive liquid waste was successfully removed from the tank. PCWR is a regulatory milestone in the closure of SRS’s old-style waste tanks, which were built in the 1950s to store waste generated by the chemical separations of plutonium and uranium.
L. Mohanta, M. P. Riley, F. B. Cheung, S. M. Bajorek, J. M. Kelly, K. Tien, C. L. Hoxie
Nuclear Technology | Volume 190 | Number 3 | June 2015 | Pages 301-312
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-77
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Heat transfer results for subcooled and saturated inverted annular film boiling (IAFB) obtained from a 7×7 rod bundle during transient reflood are presented in this paper. The test section consists of heater rods of 9.5-mm diameter and 12.6-mm pitch arranged in a square array. Flooding rates considered are 0.076 and 0.152 m/s, pressure varied from 138 to 414 kPa, and inlet subcooling up to 83 K. Evaluation of the data includes estimation of the local void fraction and Nusselt number during IAFB as well as in the inverted slug film boiling (ISFB) regime, which occurs when the inverted annular liquid column disintegrates. Experimental heat transfer results are compared with several film boiling models, and a new correlation for the Nusselt number is proposed for the IAFB and ISFB regimes. Predicted Nusselt numbers using the new correlation deviate from the experimental data by an average error of 15% and root-mean-square error of ∼30%.