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The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Kazuyuki Takase
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 1043-1049
Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963381
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Dust-air two-phase flow characteristics in a fusion experimental reactor during a loss-of-vacuum-accident (LOVA) event were analyzed numerically by three dimensional simulations using a newly developed thermal-hydraulic analysis code. Physical models on the motion of dust were considered to resolve the dust mobilization conveying by the fluid. Air ingress behavior through a breach at the LOVA event was calculated by using compressible Navier-Stokes equations. It was predicted quantitatively from the results of the present numerical study that the dust mobilization receives strongly the effect of the breach size and the fraction of the mobilized dust is determined by a circulating flow and buoyancy-driven exchange flow which are generated in a vacuum vessel of the fusion experimental reactor after the LOVA event.