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NWTRB to hold public meeting on SNF disposal and corrosion
The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, an independent federal agency that evaluates the Department of Energy’s efforts to manage and dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, will hold a two-day public meeting May 21–22 to review information on the DOE’s research and development activities related to the disposal of SNF and HLW in crystalline host rocks and on the corrosion of commercial SNF after disposal.
Keiji Tani, Masafumi Azumi, Tomonori Takizuka
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 4 | December 1990 | Pages 625-632
Alpha Particles in Fusion Research | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29255
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The feasibility of passive burn control method using toroidal field ripple-degraded alpha-particle confinement with free expansion of the major radius has been confirmed by a 1.5-dimensional transport code. In this transport code, a scaling of the ripple loss of alpha particles derived from the results of an orbit-following Monte Carlo code is used. For passive burn control, however, >5% of the major radius margin is necessary and the resulting ripple-induced power loss of alpha particles exceeds 20%. Passive burn control in combination with feedback control of the field ripple, a hybrid burn control method, demonstrates very effective burn temperature control. In hybrid burn control, the necessary major radius margin and the controlled field ripple are only 2 to 3% and δc ≲ 1%, respectively. The resulting total power loss of alpha particles is <15%.
