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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.
Richard N. Oehlberg, Harold H. Scott
Nuclear Technology | Volume 40 | Number 3 | October 1978 | Pages 248-260
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A26723
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A partitioning of a hypothetical pressurized water reactor loss-of-coolant accident time history into pre-reflood and reflood periods allowed a study of reflood parameter effects without a well-defined knowledge of the complex blowdown history. Values for the initial reflood fuel rod temperature profiles, reflood cladding-to-coolant heat transfer coefficient (HTC), decay heat, and initial reflood hot node hoop strain were chosen to parametrically describe the initial reflood condition of the fuel rod. The sensitivity of the reflood peak cladding temperature to decay heat was constant; the sensitivity to the gap conductance was only a function of the initial reflood hoop strain. The sensitivity to decay heat and the reflood HTC ramp was greater for the lower initial reflood centerline temperature case.