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Senate committee hears from energy secretary nominee Chris Wright
Wright
Chris Wright, president-elect Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Energy, spent hours today fielding questions from members of the U.S. Senate’s committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
During the hearing, Wright—who’s spent most of his career in fossil fuels—made comments in support of nuclear energy and efforts to expand domestic generation in the near future. Asked what actions he would take as energy secretary to improve the development and deployment of SMRs, Wright said: “It’s a big challenge, and I’m new to government, so I can’t list off the five levers I can pull. But (I’ve been in discussions) about how to make it easier to research, to invest, to build things. The DOE has land at some of its facilities that can be helpful in this regard.”
B. Kim, M. L. Corradini
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 1 | January 1988 | Pages 16-28
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23522
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A model for small-scale single droplet fuel/coolant interactions (FCIs) is proposed, which considers the growth of a coolant vapor/liquid interfacial disturbance into a coolant liquid jet during the collapse of the vapor film surrounding the fuel. This results in the encapsulation of the jet as coolant drops beneath the fuel surface and leads to fragmentation of the fuel. In this model, the FCI process is divided into four stages: film boiling around a molten fuel droplet in an infinite coolant pool, film collapse and coolant jet formation, coolant jet penetration and entrapment in the fuel, and rapid evaporation of entrained coolant and fragmentation of the fuel. The process repeats itself cyclically from the second stage. For the single-droplet experiments performed previously, the model predicts the qualitative trends of steam bubble growth and collapse, the final size of fuel fragments, and time scale for the fuel fragmentation.
