**Meet the editor**

Amir Zacarias Mesquita is Doctor of Science in Chemical Engineering - State University of Campinas/Brazil (2005), Master of Science and Nuclear Technologies - Federal University of Minas Gerais/Brazil (1981) and graduated in Electrical Engineering - Federal University of Minas Gerais/Brazil (1978). He is Titular Researcher at Nuclear Technology Development Center (CDTN),

an institute of the Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN). He is scholarship in technological productivity at Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He is expert of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), member of the Brazilian Association for Nuclear Engineering (ABEN), professor of training course for Brazilian nuclear reactors operators, and reactor Senior Operator. He is author of more than two hundred of technical papers published in international journals and conference proceedings.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Experimental Investigation of** 

Salah El-Din El-Morshedy

Chapter 5 **Decay Heat and Nuclear Data 71**  A. Algora and J. L. Tain

Chapter 7 **Thermal Aspects of Conventional** 

Chapter 8 **Development of an Analytical Method** 

Chapter 6 **Transport of Interfacial Area** 

Motoo Fumizawa

**Thermal Hydraulics in the IPR-R1 TRIGA Nuclear Reactor 1** 

Amir Zacarias Mesquita, Daniel Artur P. Palma, Antonella Lombardi Costa, Cláubia Pereira,

Chapter 2 **Flow Instability in Material Testing Reactors 25** 

Chapter 3 **Herium-Air Exchange Flow Rate Measurement Through a Narrow Flow Path 47** 

Chapter 4 **New Coolant from Lead Enriched with the Isotope** 

**Concentration in Two-Phase Flow 87**  Isao Kataoka, Kenji Yoshida, Masanori Naitoh,

**and Alternative Fuels in SuperCritical** 

**Water-Cooled Reactor (SCWR) Applications 123**  Wargha Peiman, Igor Pioro and Kamiel Gabriel

**on Water-Vapor Boiling Two-Phase Flow Characteristics in BWR Fuel Assemblies Under Earthquake Condition 157**  Takeharu Misawa, Hiroyuki Yoshida and Kazuyuki Takase

Hidetoshi Okada and Tadashi Morii

**Lead-208 and Possibility of Its Acquisition from** 

**Thorium Ores and Minerals for Nuclear Energy Needs 57**  Georgy L. Khorasanov, Anatoly I. Blokhin and Anton A. Valter

Maria Auxiliadora F. Veloso and Patrícia Amélia L. Reis
