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Leading the charge: INL’s role in advancing HALEU production
Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
P. W. Humrickhouse, J. P. Sharpe, M. L. Corradini
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 52 | Number 4 | November 2007 | Pages 1022-1026
Technical Paper | Tritium, Safety, and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1629
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The Toroidal Dust Mobilization eXperiment (TDMX) has been developed to investigate the mobilization of dust in fusion reactor Loss of Vacuum Accident (LOVA) scenarios. TDMX data will be utilized to validate new computational models for dust resuspension and transport in LOVAs. This work describes the modeling of the compressible vessel filling in TDMX using the CFD code Fluent. Results for fast (~0.1 s) pressure transients are found to agree well with experimental and analytical results. Modeling longer transients has thus far been less successful, due primarily to the difficulty in resolving the accompanying small flow passages.