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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).”
Kazuhisa Yuki, Yoshimasa Sugawara, Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, Hidetoshi Hashizume, Saburo Toda, Masa-aki Tanaka, Toshiharu Muramatsu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 158 | Number 2 | February 2008 | Pages 194-202
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE08-A2746
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This study aims at clarifying a relationship between nonisothermal fluid mixing in a T-junction area with a 90-deg bend upstream and temperature fluctuations induced by the unstable mixing, by visualizing the flow fields with particle image velocimetry and measuring fluid-temperature fluctuation in the vicinity of a wall. From the visualization, it is clarified that a high-temperature jet flowing out from a branch pipe swings and sways near the wall, though the mixing patterns are basically classified into the same ones without the 90-deg bend upstream. Furthermore, there are cautionary conditions in which the temperature fluctuation is maximized in a transition regime between a stratified flow and a turn-jet flow. It seems that the principal cause is repetitional generation and disappearance of a circulating flow formed behind the jet due to an interaction between unsteady behavior of a secondary flow in a decay process after the bend and the wakes formed behind the jet, which leads to the vigorous oscillation of the jet near the wall.