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On April 22, 1959, Rear Admiral George J. King, superintendent of the Maine Maritime Academy, announced that following the completion of the 1960 training cruise, cadets would begin the study of nuclear engineering. Courses at that time included radiation physics, reactor control and instrumentation, reactor theory and engineering, thermodynamics, shielding, core design, reactor maintenance, and nuclear aspects.
Uiju Jeong, Sung Joong Kim (Hanyang Univ)
Proceedings | Advances in Thermal Hydraulics 2018 | Orlando, FL, November 11-15, 2018 | Pages 399-405
On the basis of our recent experimental data and previous works by other investigators, the CHF model has been developed. It is the first model, which can predict the spatial variation of CHF along the flat surface facing downward. The physical framework established by Cheung and Haddad (1997) has been kept in the present modeling. The prediction showed that the most upstream region over the inclined heater surface is mostly susceptible to occurrence of boiling crisis. The present work is expected to contribute to the accurate estimation on the cooling limit of the ex-vessel core catcher cooling channel.