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Meeting a deadline set in President Trump’s May 23 executive order “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” the DOE on June 30 updated information on its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking and implementation procedures and published on its website an interim final rule that rescinds existing regulations alongside new implementing procedures.
P.O. Biney, S. Lomperski, M.L. Corradini
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1355-1361
Result of Large Experiment and Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29531
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A review and discussion of the conditions leading to liquid metal ignition including experimental determination of an ignition envelope for liquid lithium are presented. A simple lumped model is used to investigate the necessary conditions (liquid metal and water temperatures) for liquid metal ignition to be imminent. Both the experimental and model results indicate that as the liquid metal temperature is increased, the water temperature required for interaction to proceed to a vapor phase reaction decreases. A rate equation for the reaction of lithium-lead alloy (Li17Pb83) is determined using a mass transport reaction model. The results indicate that the reaction of this lithium-lead alloy with water can be represented by a parabolic rate law.
