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General Atomics announces breeding blanket test facility
General Atomics announced it is developing design concepts in collaboration with the Department of Energy for the Fusion Blanket Component Test Facility (BCTF), which will test full-scale breeding blankets.
“No one has tested a fusion blanket at this scale. While there are more research and development challenges ahead, a BCTF brings us closer to turning fusion from proven science into practical, sustainable power,” said Anantha Krishnan, senior vice president of the General Atomics Energy Group.
Keiji Miyazaki, Shoji Kotake, Nobuo Yamaoka, Shoji Inoue, Yoichi Fujii-E
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 447-450
Blanket and First Wall Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST4-2P2-447
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An experiment on electric potential and pressure drop for NaK flow in uniform trnasverse magnetic fields was conducted. A test channel was constructed using 45.3 mm (or 28 mm) I.D. and 1.65 mm thick 304-SS circular pipe in the NaK-Blowdown MHD Experimental Facility of Osaka University. The experimental range covered had a driving gas pressure <8 bar, an applied magnetic flux density: B0=0.3∼1. 75 T, a mean flow velocity of NaK: U0=2∼ 15 m/sec, a Reynolds number Re=8×l04∼6.2×l05 and a Hartmann number: Ha=740∼4150. A theoretical analysis is given on the basis of a uniform-velocity thick-wall model. Good agreement between the theory and the experiment were obtained both for the potential and for the pressure drop, except a small deviation of the experimental pressure drop towards values lying above the theoretical ones in a weak B0 and high U0 region (Ha2/Re <15).