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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
Jong-Hark Park, Hee-Taek Chae, Cheol Park, Heonil Kim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 160 | Number 3 | December 2007 | Pages 346-351
Technical Note | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT07-A3905
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A tubular-type fuel assembly has been considered as one of the candidates for the fuel of the Advanced HANARO Reactor (AHR). The hydraulic characteristics of the tubular fuel under consideration have been investigated by an experiment and a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. To measure the flow distribution and the pressure drop, a test facility was constructed, and a mock-up of a tubular fuel was fabricated. A pitot tube was employed to measure the coolant velocity in the flow channels. Numerical analysis by the CFD code was also conducted to compare its results with the test results and to obtain insight into the flow structure in a tubular fuel. The simulation results by the CFD analysis showed reasonable agreement with the measurements for the flow distribution as well as good agreement for the pressure drop in a tubular fuel.
