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Leak-tightness test on deck for SRS mega unit
The Savannah River Site in South Carolina will begin a leak-tightness test to qualify the megavolume Saltstone Disposal Unit (SDU) 10 to store up to 33 million gallons of solidified, decontaminated salt solution produced at the site.
Teruya Tanaka, Takeo Muroga, Akio Sagara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 3 | April 2005 | Pages 530-534
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - First Wall, Blanket, and Shield | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A738
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Compatibility between tritium self-sufficiency and neutron shielding performance of self-cooled liquid blanket systems without solid neutron multiplier was investigated for the purpose of application to the conceptual helical reactor design of modified FFHR2 having the blanket space of 120 cm. The results of the neutronics calculation indicated that all of the Li/V-alloy, Flibe/V-alloy and Flibe/JLF-1 (Reduced Activation Ferritic steel) blankets are feasible for tritium breeding ability and neutron shielding performance. With the use of vanadium alloys, operation efficiency will be enhanced.
