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The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site this month marked the first direct transfer of decontaminated waste from the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) to the Saltstone Production Facility (SPF). This is a new step in optimizing waste processing, according to the DOE.
K. Taghavi, M. S. Tillack, H. Madarame
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 12 | Number 1 | July 1987 | Pages 104-113
Technical Paper | Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST87-A25054
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The presence of strong magnetic fields and of volumetric heat generation in the fusion reactor environment result in an unusual heat transfer situation for liquid metals, as compared to nonconducting coolants. The effects of velocity profiles and volumetric heat generation on heat transfer in liquid-metal blankets are examined both analytically and numerically. Analysis shows that unlike the fully developed Nusselt number, the spatial dependence within the entry region is relatively insensitive to the shape of the velocity profile and the amount of bulk heating. Hence, closed form solutions f or fully developed heat transfer can be used together with a normalized entrance region curve to estimate heat transfer throughout the blanket.