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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).”
A. K. Hertrick, R. A. Riddell, R. E. Schwirian, G. M. Dorogy, W. J. Bryan, R. J. Hopkins
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 3 | November 1984 | Pages 396-403
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A18593
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Comparisons of analytical and experimental results are presented for the fluid jetting resulting from the existence of small gaps between parallel flow regions with dissimilar hydraulic characteristics. The experiment simulates the baffle gaps between a nuclear reactor core and the peripheral region around it, called the barrel-baffle region. Baffle gap fluid velocities are measured by a technique in which the only disturbance to the gap flow is a small pressure tap in the gap wall. The analysis uses an iterative, hydraulic network approach and is shown to yield good results when compared to the measured gap jet velocity and pressure drop distributions.