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Oklo completes end-to-end demonstration of advanced fuel recycling
Oklo Inc. has announced that it has completed the first end-to-end demonstration of its advanced fuel recycling process as part of an ongoing $5 million project in collaboration with Argonne and Idaho National Laboratories. Oklo’s goal: scaling up its fuel recycling capabilities to deploy a commercial-scale recycling facility that would increase advanced reactor fuel supplies and enhance fuel cost effectiveness for its planned sodium fast reactors.
Motoo Fumizawa, Tomoaki Kunugi, Makoto Hishida, Mikio Akamatsu, Sadao Fujii, Minoru Igarashi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 110 | Number 2 | May 1995 | Pages 263-272
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT95-A35124
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A three-dimensional thermal-hydraulic code using boundary-fitted coordinates systems has been developed to predict incompressible flows with complex geometries and large variations of physical properties. This code has been applied to a buoyancy-driven exchange flow in an enclosed space consisting of an upper and a lower hemisphere connected with a circular vertical pipe. The computational results have been compared with experiments. It was found that the computed heat transfer rate was smaller than that obtained from the experimental correlation in a single hemisphere at large Rayleigh number. This may be attributed to the effect on the flow behavior of a large variation of gas properties. Unsteady and asymmetric flow patterns such as observed in the experiments were numerically obtained in the vertical pipe.