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G7 pledges support for nuclear at Italy meeting
The Group of Seven (G7) recommitted its support for nuclear energy in the countries that opt to use it at a Ministerial Meeting on Climate in Italy last month.
In a statement following the April meeting, the group committed to support multilateral efforts to strengthen the resilience of nuclear supply chains, referencing the goal set by 25 countries during last year’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai to triple global nuclear generating capacity by 2050.
C. Koehly, L. Bühler, C. Mistrangelo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 8 | November 2019 | Pages 1010-1015
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1607705
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The water-cooled lead lithium (WCLL) blanket is one of the European concepts for a Demonstration nuclear fusion reactor (DEMO). The spatial distribution of the water-cooling pipes inside the liquid metal blanket breeder zone is a critical issue since efficient heat removal from the liquid metal has to be ensured, avoiding local hot spots in the fluid or in blanket walls. Convective motion, driven by density gradients due to volumetric heat sources in the liquid breeder and heat removal by cooling pipes, is affected by magnetohydrodynamic interactions of the electrically conducting lead lithium with the external magnetic field. For the recent complex design of the DEMO WCLL blanket, prediction of the liquid metal flow is quite difficult. Preliminary numerical and experimental studies are necessary to determine the flow distribution resulting from the combined interaction of electromagnetic forces, buoyancy, and pressure. A test section based on a simplified model geometry supported by preliminary numerical simulations has been designed for experiments in the MEKKA laboratory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and is presented in this paper.