Design Development of Heater Tank Rod Assembly

A heater tank is designed and developed at the Malaysian Nuclear Agency whereby the setup allows investigation of the heat transfer between heater rods and fluids in a tank. The heater tank is a physical simulation of an array of nuclear fuel rods within a nuclear fuel assembly. In this paper, we introduce the tank, heating rod, and electrical control, with a focus on design. The heater tank shall be used as an educational unit to study convective cooling and for tomographic inspection. (author)