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actor core by natural circulation cooling, treatment of transient<br />

heat transfer and two-phase flow throughout the entire loop of the<br />

reactor is indespensable. This is because in natural circulation,<br />

the driving force,isdetermined by the density difference between the hot<br />

and cold sections throughout the entire loop. The importance of<br />

natural circulation cooling has been recognized since the accident of Three<br />

Mile Island Power Plant.<br />

In view of these, the final chapter (Chapter VI. ) of this thesis<br />

is devoted to the natural circulation problem. The scaling criteria for<br />

the natural circulation under single and two-phase flow have been developed<br />

based on the basic formulations'of the phenomena. Of cource, the results<br />

obtained in the previous chapters are closely related to this analysis.<br />

The knowledge of the non-boiling transient heat transfer ( Chapter IL)<br />

can be used in the single phase natural_circulation and the knowledges of<br />

the transient boiling and two-ohase. low (Chapter I, DI-V) are necessary<br />

to the two-phase natural circulation. The results obtained in this chapter<br />

can be used in designing a model plant which simulates a prototype power<br />

plant. They are also needed in interpreting the experimental data obt-<br />

ained in the model facilities.<br />

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