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Steam is a sign of cooling system function . . . at ITER
Steam from one of ITER’s ten induced-draft cooling cells offers visual confirmation of a successful cooling system test, the ITER organization announced April 30. ITER’s cooling system features 60 kilometers of piping with pumps, filters, and heat exchangers that can pull water through at up to 14 cubic meters per second. Once fully operational, two cooling loops—one to remove the heat generated by the plasma in the ITER tokamak and one for its supporting infrastructure—will be capable of extracting up to 1,200 MW of heat.
H. Maekawa, S. Yamaguchi, Y. Oyama, K. Kosako
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 1283-1286
Blanket Nucleonics Experiment | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39866
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Tritium production-rate (TPR) distributions of 6Li, 7Li and NLi were measured in a Be-sandwich Li2O assembly. The Be-region of 50.8 mm-thick was sandwiched by 50.6 and 506 mm-thick Li2O regions. Tritium production rates along the central axis were measured by four techniques, i.e., liquid scintillation method with Li2O pellets, self-irradiation method with LiF TLDs, Li-glass scintillators and a small sphere NE213 detector. The TPRs measured by the four methods agreed well with each other within the experimental errors. The calculation was performed by DOT3.5 with the nuclear data files of JENDL-3T and ENDF/B-IV. An agreement is observed between the calculated and measured TPRs within the experimental errors except near the Be-region.