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Illinois legislature lifts ban on nuclear energy, funds clean energy
The Illinois General Assembly passed a clean energy bill on October 30 that would, in part, lift a 30-year moratorium on new nuclear energy in the state and create incentives for more energy storage.
G. Sonnemann
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 4 | April 1959 | Pages 242-247
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25591
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Analysis of burnout heat flux is undertaken by considering the burnout heat flux to be the sum of the flux required to initiate nucleate boiling and of an incremental flux required to cause burnout. For data taken at a pressure of 2000 psia, the method of analysis correlated the majority of the data with an accuracy of ±17 per cent.
