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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
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“Summer time” again? Santee Cooper thinks so
South Carolina public utility Santee Cooper and its partner South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) called a halt to the Summer-2 and -3 AP1000 construction project in July 2017, citing costly delays and the bankruptcy of Westinghouse. The well-chronicled legal fallout included indictments and settlements, and ultimately left Santee Cooper with the ownership of nonnuclear assets at the construction site in Jenkinsville, S.C.
W. Schütz, H. Sauter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 667-672
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18976
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Sodium evaporation rates from Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center-NALA experiments (experiments on aerosol release from a contaminated sodium pool into an argon or a nitrogen atmosphere) are presented. Pool temperatures were varied between 700 and 1000 K at different geometrical and convective conditions. Technical scale experiments with a 531-cm2 pool surface area were performed at natural convection in a 2.2-m3 heated vessel, as well as additional small scale experiments at forced convection and 38.5-cm2 pool surface area. The data are compared to the sodium vapor pressure. For the data at natural convection, a best fit formula is given.