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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.
K. Rehme
Nuclear Technology | Volume 33 | Number 3 | May 1977 | Pages 314-317
Technical Note | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31793
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Experiments have been performed on the pressure drop of a spacer grid in rod bundles of 12 rods. Both smooth and rough rod bundles were used in the experiments. The artificial roughness cut into the outer surface of the rods was chosen so as to meet the actual design of a gas-cooled fast breeder reactor. The results of this investigation for a Reynolds number range between Re = 4 × 103 and 7 × 104 indicate that the pressure drop at the spacer grids is higher in a roughened rod bundle than in a smooth rod bundle.
