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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Ramu K. Sundaram, John C. Chen, John C. Dallman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 3 | November 1984 | Pages 287-296
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A18583
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Liquid holdup on a 101.6-mm-diam, 0.5588-m-long vertical rod has been measured in air/water cross flow at various air and water flow rates. The measurement technique involved the use of band-type capacitance probes, which are capable of measuring the average liquid film thickness around the rod circumference. The probe is able to provide useful information in the presence of non-uniform films around the rod as well as in rivulet flows. The data are shown to be consistent with previously obtained data on liquid drainage flow rates for a variety of air and water incident flow rates. A simple model, based on laminar flow theory, reasonably explains the trends in film thickness variation.