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Nuclear power in the Democratic and Republican party platforms—44 years ago
Tonight, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is expected to offer some policy details in a speech at the Democratic National Convention. With nuclear energy getting firm bipartisan support in Washington, D.C., it won’t come as a surprise if Harris backs nuclear power investments as part of her energy and climate policies.
But 11 campaigns and 44 years ago, in 1980, President Jimmy Carter and Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan were on the campaign trail in the first presidential election contest after the March 1979 accident at Three Mile Island. Democratic and Republican party operatives hashed out policy platforms that took stock of nuclear energy—and Nuclear News took note.
Nobuaki Ohnishi, Kiyomi Ishijima, Sadamitsu Tanzawa
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 3 | November 1984 | Pages 331-341
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A18587
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The empirical correlations for subcooled film-boiling heat transfer during a reactivity-initiated accident in light water reactors are derived from inverse heat conduction calculations using the cladding surface temperatures measured in in-reactor experiments. The experimental data for cold startup conditions (subcoolings of ∼10 to 80 K and coolant velocities of ∼0 to 2 m/s at atmospheric pressure) and hot standby conditions (subcooling of ∼10 to 40 K, system pressures of 7.2 and 16 MPa, and system temperatures of 550 and 580 K) are used for this investigation. The present correlations are compared with existing correlations from ex-reactor experiments. The results of transient fuel behavior calculations with a computer code that included the present correlations are in good agreement with the corresponding measured data from the experiments.