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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
Yamato Asakura, Makoto Kikuchi, Shunsuke Uchida, Hideo Yusa
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 67 | Number 1 | July 1978 | Pages 1-7
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-6
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The deposition of suspended iron oxide in boiling water at atmospheric pressure on a heated Zircaloy surface has been studied. The effects of various factors, including heat flux of the heated surface, concentration of iron oxide, and flow rate of boiling water, on the deposition rate during the initial period have been investigated. A model based on the microlayer evaporation and drying out phenomena that occur in the nucleate boiling bubble is proposed for an interpretation of the deposition rate. Close agreement is obtained between calculations using that model and the experimental results.
