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At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
William A. Heenan, David T. Camp
Nuclear Technology | Volume 11 | Number 2 | June 1971 | Pages 191-205
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30884
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A “capillary valve” having no moving parts, and suited for use in corrosive media has been designed and developed. The valve permits the bleeding of a gas into a liquid region if a certain pressure difference is exceeded and also prevents the counterflow of liquid. The valve consists of a porous metallic disk or plug that has small-diameter interconnected pores that average between 0.1 and 5 μ and have the essential property of being wet by the liquid involved.
