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Strontium: Supply-and-demand success for the DOE’s Isotope Program
The Department of Energy’s Isotope Program (DOE IP) announced last week that it would end its “active standby” capability for strontium-82 production about two decades after beginning production of the isotope for cardiac diagnostic imaging. The DOE IP is celebrating commercialization of the Sr-82 supply chain as “a success story for both industry and the DOE IP.” Now that the Sr-82 market is commercially viable, the DOE IP and its National Isotope Development Center can “reassign those dedicated radioisotope production capacities to other mission needs”—including Sr-89.
Joshua Hodson, Robert Spall, Barton Smith
Nuclear Technology | Volume 161 | Number 3 | March 2008 | Pages 268-276
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT08-A3925
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The effectiveness of five different turbulence models is assessed for the flow across a row of confined cylinders at a pitch-to-diameter ratio of 1.7 and at Reynolds numbers ranging from 2621 to 55 920. Models examined include the one-equation Spalart-Almaras model; two-equation realizable k - [curly epsilon], k - , and shear stress transport models; and a four-equation v2 - f model. Quantities compared against published experimental data include minor loss coefficients, separation angles about cylinders, wake lengths behind cylinders, and streamwise velocity profiles at the periodic inlet/outlet boundaries. Results indicate that each of the models did a reasonable job in predicting the minor loss coefficient as a function of Reynolds number. With the exception of the k - [curly epsilon] model, each was also able to predict the experimentally observed trend of decreasing wake and separation lengths with increasing Reynolds number. In addition, all models also predicted a local minimum in the separation angle about the inner cylinder as a function of Reynolds number, which has also been observed experimentally. Our conclusion is that the v2 - f model performed slightly better at predicting the experimental data than any of the other models examined, although at the computational expense of solving two additional equations.