Oppression as a Statutory Ground for Corporate Dissolution

  In the case of a severe accident in a nuclear power plant the reactor may heat up, melt and mix with fuel material to form a substance called corium. In today's nuclear power plants the primary strategy to cool the corium in the event of a severe accident is to flood the ex-vessel cavity with water. The reactions which occur when the liquid metal comes in contact with the water, known as fuel coolant interaction (FCI), can be violent and in the worst case scenario lead to containment failure. In the MISTEE laboratory at KTH, small scale FCI experiments are conducted. This thesis explores how dierent temperatures of liquid tin and water aects the presence of steam explosion. Higher melt superheat and lower water temperature was found to increase the likelihood of steam explosions. Furthermore, a phenomenon was observed, hereby referred to as immediate steam explosion, where the melt exploded immediately upon contact with water. All previous research found states that steam explosion only occurs in the later stages of FCI, thus the results are contradictory. The thesis also includes research on jet breakup in the initial phase of FCI and how it is affected by melt velocity, diameter and temperature as well as water temperature. The experiments performed did not yield data which could be analyzed so no conclusions could be drawn.Om en allvarlig olycka inträffar på ett kärnkraftverk kan reaktorn värmas upp, smälta och bilda en smälta som innehåller bränsleämnen. I dagens kärnkraftverk är den primära strategin för att kyla reaktormaterialet vid en eventuell allvarlig olycka att fylla utrymmet utanför reaktorn med vatten. De reaktioner som uppstår när den smälta metallen kommer i kontakt med vattnet (FCI) kan vara mycket våldsamma och i värsta fall leda till skador på skyddsväggarna. Vid MISTEE på KTH forskar man på reaktionerna i liten skala för att få en ökad förståelse för processerna i FCI. Denna avhandling undersöker sambandet mellan temperaturen på smältan och vattnet och förekomsten av steam explosion. Högre smält temperatur och lägre vattentemperatur visade sig öka sannolikheten för steam explosions. Vidare, ett fenomen observerades, som kommer att refereras till som omedelbar steam explosion, där smältan exploderade direkt vid kontakt med vattnet. All tidigare forskning som hittades pekar på att steam explosions endast sker i senare skeden av FCI. Avhandlingen inkluderar även forskning på uppbrytning av en metall stråle i den initiala fasen av FCI och hur den påverkas av strålens hastighet, diameter och temperatur samt vattnets temperatur. De utförda experimenten resulterade inte i data som kunde analyseras och inga slutsatser kunde dras

Crossed Signals in a Wireless World: The Seventh Circuit’s Misapplication of the Complete Preemption Doctrine

As the number of wireless telephone users continues to proliferate, so does the number of lawsuits against wireless service providers. While consumers seek to utilize various consumer-friendly state law causes of action, the wireless industry continues to push for a uniform federal regulatory regime. Ambiguous language in the Federal Communications Act of 1934 ( FCA ) and disagreement among the federal circuits has led to much confusion over whether state law claims affecting wireless rates and market entry are removable to federal court by way of complete preemption. This iBrief argues that FCA\u27s preemption power is limited by its savings clause, failure to establish a comprehensive regulatory scheme, and provision of a significant role for state regulation. Accordingly, the Seventh Circuit erred in Bastien v. AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. when it concluded that the FCA completely preempts certain state law claims against wireless service providers and thereby requires their removal to federal court

The Home-State Test for General Personal Jurisdiction

This article attempts to articulate the due process test for general in personam jurisdiction. It frames the question as what gives a state sufficiently plenary power over a person that the state may adjudicate claims against the person regardless of where the claims arose, and it answers that question in terms of a home-state relationship between the defendant and the forum state. Written for a roundtable on the upcoming Supreme Court case of DaimlerChrysler AG v. Bauman, the article urges the Court to state the home-state test for general jurisdiction more clearly than it did two years ago in Goodyear Dunlop Tires v. Brown. In Goodyear, while the Court strongly suggested a home-state test, it did so ambiguously. The home-state test makes sense from the perspective of the justification for general jurisdiction and its separateness from specific jurisdiction. A corporation should be subject to general jurisdiction in the corporation’s home state, defined as the state of incorporation and principal place of business. One implication of the test is that, for purposes of general jurisdiction, a subsidiary’s contacts should not be imputed to its corporate parent on an agency theory. Also, the home-state test provides a basis to jettison the reasonableness prong that some courts have applied to general jurisdiction