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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
A. Majid, M. Abdou
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 776-781
Impurity Control | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24834
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A design window for a liquid metal cooled limiter is being sought to establish the viability of the use of liquid metals as coolants for the limiter. The problem is approached by first establishing the constraints, then defining the geometrical configuration and design parameters, and finally, by analyzing a limiter without coating. The maximum allowable heat flux is found to be ∼ 4 MW/m2. It can be increased to 5 MW/m2 if tapered or insulated feed pipes are used. The presence of coatings required to withstand particle erosion will further reduce the allowable heat flux.