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Japanese researchers test detection devices at West Valley
Two research scientists from Japan’s Kyoto University and Kochi University of Technology visited the West Valley Demonstration Project in western New York state earlier this fall to test their novel radiation detectors, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on November 19.
Taehwan Ahn, Julio Diaz, Robert Adams, Victor Petrov, Annalisa Manera
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 12 | December 2023 | Pages 1898-1913
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2197680
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High-resolution two-phase flow data in the rod bundle are important in the development and validation of high-fidelity models for computational fluid dynamics and subchannel codes, in particular, those pertaining to light water reactor cooling systems. The Michigan Adiabatic Rod Bundle Flow Experiment (MARBLE) has been constructed as a modular assembly of an 8 × 8 lattice rod bundle to simulate scaled pressurized water reactor and boiling water reactor subchannel assemblies. To establish a high-spatial resolution database of the void fraction in the reactor fuel assembly geometries, tomographic measurements were performed with the High-Resolution Gamma-ray Tomography System, which was designed and built in house; the detector system has a spatial resolution of less than 1.0 mm using 240 LYSO (Lu1.8Y0.2SiO5) scintillators with a fan-beam array. In the present study, the local void fraction was measured with the MARBLE facility under various air-water flow conditions (jg = 0.04 to 0.85 m/s and jl = 0.12 to 0.77 m/s) covering from bubbly to cap-turbulent flows. The local void fraction was also successfully measured under nonuniform and asymmetric air bubble distribution conditions with an investigation of the effect of spacer grids and mixing vanes on void drift across subchannels.