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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).”
Joel Weisman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 15 | Number 3 | September 1972 | Pages 465-469
Technical Note | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A16044
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Experimental data have shown a high resistance to cross flow in the presence of large axial flows. This phenomenon may be explained by use of a full lateral momentum balance. Application of the momentum balance principle shows that interchannel cross flow at any given level depends on the cross flow at the lower level in addition to the local pressure gradient. This revised procedure for calculation of cross flow should eventually lead to improved estimation of core wide flow redistribution in open lattice cores.