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From South Korea to Belgium: Testing a high-density research reactor fuel
The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has developed a high-density uranium silicide fuel designed to replace high-enriched uranium in research reactors. Recent irradiation tests appear to be successful, KAERI reports, which means the fuel could be commercialized to continue a key global nuclear nonproliferation effort—converting research reactors to run on low-enriched uranium fuel.
Koji Yamanaka, Satoru Yoshimura, Shinichi Yamamoto, Shigefumi Okada, Seiichi Goto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 370-383
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963483
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
An experiment of Alfvén wave excitation and heating of a field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma is presented. A low frequency magnetic pulse is applied to the FRC plasma by an azimuthally symmetrical antenna. After the pulse applied, an obvious increase of the plasma energy and the propagation of the magnetic wave are simultaneously observed. The excited wave propagates along the steady magnetic field line with the radially distributed phase velocity. The phase velocity outside the separatrix agrees the dispersion relation of the shear Alfvén wave. On the other hand, it is close to the acoustic speed, inside the separatrix. It is also observed that there is a generation of a non-oscillating toroidal magnetic field, which is possible to cause the heating of the FRC plasma.