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Title: Natural circulation
Post by: Rennhack on Nov 23, 2005, 10:11
The circulation of the coolant in the reactor coolant system without the use of the reactor coolant pumps. The circulation is due to the natural convection resulting from the different densities of relative cold and heated portions of the system.