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3D Printing Possibilities: Additive Manufacturing Impact Limiters for Transportation Casks
With the significant advances in additive manufacturing (AM), otherwise known as 3D printing, Orano Federal Services and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte recently re-examined the capabilities to print impact limiters for transportation casks used to ship spent nuclear fuel. Impact limiters protect transportation casks (sometimes also referred to as transportation overpacks) and their contents during an accident. Impact limiter designs must withstand testing based on a certain significance level of hypothetical accidents, including drops, crushing, fires, and immersion in water.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 64 | Number 2 | August 2013 | Pages 168-175
ITER | Proceedings of the Twentieth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE-2012) (Part 1), Nashville, Tennessee, August 27-31, 2012 | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A18073
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The ITER project baseline now includes two sets of in-vessel coils, one to mitigate the effects of Edge Localized Modes (ELMs) and another to provide vertical stabilization (VS). The in-vessel location presents special challenges in terms of nuclear radiation and temperature, and requires the use of mineral-insulated conductors. An update to the preliminary design based on this conductor technology is presented for both coil designs. Results from an on-going R&D program consisting of conductor development, welding and brazing process development, electrical testing and mechanical testing in order to demonstrate manufacturability of this style of conductor are presented. Plans for two prototype coils, one of each type, are presented.