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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
W. L. Chen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 3 | March 1975 | Pages 471-476
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24385
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A simple method has been developed for calculation of transient heat losses that occur as a hot fluid produced during a liquid-metal fast breeder reactor hypothetical core-disruptive accident expands through the fission-gas plenum region. The heat-conduction equation of the plenum cladding is formally solved by the Laplace transform for a time-dependent cladding surface temperature, and the resulting solution is numerically evaluated using an integration method based on the trapezoidal rule. The expanding hot fluid may be a two-phase mixture of sodium produced by a fuel-coolant interaction or a two-phase mixture of fuel produced by a severe nuclear excursion. Illustrative calculations have been performed considering a hypothetical fuel-coolant interaction in the Fast Flux Test Facility core.