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Supreme Court rules against Texas in interim storage case
The Supreme Court voted 6–3 against Texas and a group of landowners today in a case involving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing of a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, reversing a decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to grant the state and landowners Fasken Land and Minerals (Fasken) standing to challenge the license.
Jacob P. Gorton, Nicolas R. Brown (Penn State), Soon Kyu Lee, Yonho Lee (Univ of New Mexico)
Proceedings | Advances in Thermal Hydraulics 2018 | Orlando, FL, November 11-15, 2018 | Pages 1022-1027
We present the results of a preliminary comparison of low-pressure transient critical heat flux (CHF) tests conducted in a closed tube test section and best-estimate simulation results. We compare low-pressure experimental CHF test results for stainless steel 316 (SS316) and Inconel 600 test sections to results predicted by models developed in two widely-used thermal hydraulics codes; the system code RELAP5-3D and the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of LWRs (CASL) version of CTF. The objective of the comparison was to determine how well the models would predict CHF and post-CHF tube temperatures and rewetting behavior. The RELAP5-3D and CTF models conservatively predicted the heat flux at which CHF was exceeded for the SS316 models, but both codes showed that CHF was exceeded at a greater heat flux than in the experiment for the Inconel 600 case. RELAP5-3D and CTF overpredicted the post-CHF tube temperature in the SS316 model but underpredicted the Inconel tube temperature, thus demonstrating the need for improved CHF and post-CHF prediction methods for various materials.
