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Panelists discuss U.S. path to criticality in ANS webinar
The American Nuclear Society recently hosted a panel discussion featuring prominent figures from the nuclear sector who discussed the industry’s ongoing push for criticality.
Yasir Arafat, chief technical officer of Aalo Atomics; Jordan Bramble, CEO of Antares Nuclear; and Rita Baranwal, chief nuclear officer of Radiant Industries, participated in the discussion and covered their recent progress in the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program. Nader Satvat, director of nuclear systems design at Kairos Power, gave an update on the company’s ongoing demonstration projects taking place outside of the landscape of DOE authorization.
Steven J. Piet
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 77-89
Technical Paper | Blanket Comparison and Selection Study | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24675
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The results of the safety evaluation of the Blanket Comparison and Selection Study (BCSS) are presented. The safety evaluation measured the relative safety and environmental attractiveness of the final group of BCSS blanket concepts for application with either a tokamak or tandem mirror fusion reactor. Two types of blankets were found to be the most attractive in the safety evaluation. One top-blanket-type is a helium-cooled HT-9 structure with a Li2O breeder, which is preferred if tritium effluent control is good; a lithium breeder would be the backup. The other top blanket concept is liquid-metal-cooled V-15 Cr-5 Ti structure with lithium coolant/breeder, preferred if air and water chemical reactions are adequately controlled; 17Li-83Pb would be the backup coolant/breeder material.