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WIPP: Lessons in transportation safety
As part of a future consent-based approach by the federal government to site new deep geologic repositories for nuclear waste, local communities and states that are considering hosting such facilities are sure to have many questions. Currently, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is the only example of such a repository in operation, and it offers the opportunity for state and local officials to visit and judge for themselves the risks and benefits of hosting a similar facility. But its history can also provide lessons for these officials, particularly the political process leading up to the opening of WIPP, the safety of WIPP operations and transportation of waste from generator facilities to the site, and the economic impacts the project has had on the local area of Carlsbad, as well as the rest of the state of New Mexico.
Hiroyuki Nakaharai, Satoshi Takami, Takehiko Yokomine, Shinji Ebara, Akihiko Shimizu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 52 | Number 4 | November 2007 | Pages 855-859
Technical Paper | First Wall, Blanket, and Shield | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1599
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An effective heat transfer enhancement scheme is required to compensate for the decrease in heat transfer due to MHD effects in FLiBe based blanket design of fusion reactor. In present study, a twisted tape is selected as a potential candidate for a turbulence promoter, and a thermohydraulic behavior of turbulent flow of an electrically conducting fluid in a non-conducting pipe with twisted tape insertion under a transverse magnetic field is investigated. As a result, significant decrease of heat transfer performance is not observed compared with the same flow without the tape insertion because the heat transfer is dominated by the strong helical flow which is not suppressed by the magnetic field.