Nukiyama was first and best

During the early 1930's Professor Shiro Nukiyama discovered a lot with a platinum wire that simultaneously served as a heat transfer element and a resistance thermometer when he explored heat transfer to water at one atmosphere. He recalled his 50 years of experience in an article in the 1984 issue of the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Click on the page below that has portions of Nukiyama's recollections in 1984 and note the reference to his work that was published in 1934. Click on the following to enlarge.

So, about 74 years after Nukiyama's pioneering work, the Berkeley crowd and others cited Nukiyama's work, however they did not cite Nukiyama. Instead, the Nukiyama work was attributed to a document published during 1992 by one of their own. One of the authors, Majumdar, is now with the Obama gang as he runs the new ARPA-E (EARPA). Again, click to enlarge.

Blowdown Heat Transfer -- Unbelievable

Following is one page from a December 14 entry on this matter that I am still working on and it has not been posted. I have several references with an abstract that I'm writing. The following really does not stand on it own and that is too bad, but I want it out here now. Click to enlarge and use your back arrow to return.

IT TAKES TIME, AND MORE TIME. HOPELESS?

I'm after those RBHT documents. See my blog entries of November 13 and December 3, 2009. So, I've heard from my Congressman, and he is a great Congressman. The NRC knows how to not respond. Click on the letters to enlarge.

Another approach: Rod Bundle Heat Transfer at Penn State

I've already reported other approaches to get these reports. Right now I'm also trying via a Petition for Rulemaking to the NRC. Here it is, three pages. Click to enlarge and use the back arrow to return for the next page:

Starvation

The following poster is from the Fall 2009 issue of the HOOVER DIGEST. The Digest reports the folowing:

A Soviet poster from 1931 presents a busy harvest scene, watched by spiteful counterrevolutionaries and foreign invaders. "Bread is our strength," it reads. "A grave for invaders. Gather the harvest." Sheaves become weapons that wound a rich peasant, a priest,a capitalist, and a czarist. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, like this poster, was intimately acquainted with using food as a weapon: at the time this exhortation was printed, collectivization was causing widespread famine and would kill millions of people.

Wiley Post, 55,000 feet, December 7, 1934, Yankee Ingenuity at Work. Great!

More Rod Bundle Heat Transfer at Penn State

You may scroll down to my prior entry. So, today I mailed the appeal to the NRC's Executive Director of Operations. I was not permitted to e-mail the following, however, I sent it to my Senator Mike Crapo and Congressman Mike Simpson as well as Chairman NRC by e-mail. Here it is, and I'm not holding my breath for the EDO to respond:

Robert H. Leyse
P. O. Box 2850
Sun Valley, ID 83353

November 13, 3009

Executive Director of Operations
U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, D. C. 20555

Fee Waiver Appeal FOIA-2010-0008

The NRC’s denial of my request is a matter of record at the NRC. It is likely tragic that the NRC has withheld timely publication of the results from Rod Bundle Test Facility and Heat Transfer Program at Penn State.

As a condition for releasing the documents to me and the public, the NRC demands that I devote substantial resources to addressing issues related to public awareness. I have nothing to add beyond what I have already disclosed to the NRC.

Please expedite the release of the following:

L. E. Hochreiter, F. B. Cheung, T. F. Lin, C. Frepoli, A. Sridharan, D. R. Todd, E. R. Rosal, "Rod Bundle Heat Transfer Facility Test Plan and Design," NUREG/CR Report, Submitted to U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, October 2008 (218 pages)


L. E. Hochreiter, F. B. Cheung, T. F. Lin, S. Ergun, A. Sridharan, A. Ireland, E. R. Rosal, "RBHT Reflood Heat Transfer Experiments Data and Analysis Report," NUREG/CR Report, Submitted to U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, October 2008 (338 pages)

L. E. Hochreiter, F. B. Cheung, , T. F. Lin, D. J. Miller, B. R. Lowery, "RBHT Two Phase Mixture Level Swell and Uncovery Experiments Data Report" NUREG/CR Report, Submitted to U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, December 2008 (198 pages)


L. E. Hochreiter, F. B. Cheung, , T. F. Lin, D. M. McLaughlin, J. P. Spring, P. M. Kutzler, and S. Ergun, "Rod Bundle Heat Transfer Facility ? Steady State Steam Cooling Experiments," NUREG/CR Report, Submitted to U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, December 2008 (206 page)

L. E. Hochreiter, F. B. Cheung, , T. F. Lin, D. J. Miller, B. R. Lowery, "Rod Bundle Heat Transfer Facility Steam Cooling with Droplet Injection Experiments Data Report," NUREG/CR Report, Submitted to U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, December 2008 (427 pages)


L. E. Hochreiter, F. B. Cheung, and T. F. Lin, "Rod Bundle Heat Transfer Phase II Monthly Reports," PSU/MNE Report, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, January 2006, 2006.



Robert H. Leyse