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MARVEL PDSA approval could serve as blueprint
MARVEL, the Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation project at Idaho National Laboratory, has had its preliminary documented safety analysis approved by the Department of Energy, marking a milestone in its development and serving as a potential outline for other microreactors in development.
R. Yu. Akentjev, A.V. Arzhannikov, V.T. Astrelin, A.V. Burdakov, I.A. Ivanov, V.S. Koidan, K.I. Mekler, S.A. Novozhilov, S.V. Polosatkin, V.V. Postupaev, A.F. Rovenskikh, A.V. Savchkov, S.L. Sinitsky, A.A. Shoshin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 135-138
Topical Lectures | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963425
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Two experiments directed to a search the experimental conditions for the creation of the hot plasma bunch with β~1 at the multimirror trap GOL-3-II are described. In the first one the hydrogen cloud of 0.5 m length and ~1016 density cm−3 was heated in a short (~ 0.5 m) section with relatively small magnetic field placed in the 12-m solenoid with 9 T magnetic field in mirrors. Plasma pressure was measured by diamagnetic loops and reached βvac ≈0.4. In the second experiment the dense bunch is created by pellet (LiD, (CH2)n) injection into the electron-beam-heated plasma. After beginning of the beam injection the pellet is evaporated and ionized, then dense plasma is magnetized and as result dense bunch (ne=1016-1017cm−3) with abrupt edges is created. After heating the bunch has expansion velocity up to 3·107cm/s.