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Lightbridge announces first U-Zr fuel rod samples extruded at INL
Lightbridge Corporation announced today that it has reached “a critical milestone” in the development of its extruded solid fuel technology. Coupon samples using an alloy of zirconium and depleted uranium—not the high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) that Lightbridge plans to use to manufacture its fuel for the commercial market—were extruded at Idaho National Laboratory’s Materials and Fuels Complex.
N. Vetcha, S. Smolentsev, M. Abdou
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 2 | August 2009 | Pages 851-855
Tritium Breeding | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST56-851
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An approach is developed to study the stability of mixed convection in the poloidal flows of the DCLL blanket. Modified Orr-Sommerfeld equations are derived and then solved using a numerical code based on a pseudo-spectral method. The stability analysis has been performed for the flows in the front blanket ducts, where the forced flow is upwards; showing that in the DCLL blanket conditions, all disturbances associated with the buoyant flows in the front ducts will likely be damped by a strong toroidal magnetic field.