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DOE issues RFQ for clean-energy projects at WIPP
The Department of Energy has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for interested parties that are looking to establish carbon pollution–free electricity (CFE) projects at its Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in New Mexico.
Eo Hwak Lee, Dong Won Lee, Jae Sung Yoon, Suk-Kwon Kim, Seungyon Cho
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 64 | Number 3 | September 2013 | Pages 641-644
Test Blanket, Fuel Cycle, and Breeding | Proceedings of the Twentieth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE-2012) (Part 2) Nashville, Tennessee, August 27-31, 2012 | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A19164
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A scaled-down Helium Supplying System (HeSS), which is linked with an electron beam heat load facility, has been constructed in Korea. HeSS is designed to supply a high temperature and high pressure helium gas flow into the first wall mock-ups of the HCCR TBM. The electron beam facility (KoHLT-EB) is connected with HeSS to apply a high heat load (up to 5 MW/m2 at 300×200 mm2) to the first wall mock-up target. A heat load test, with a constant heat flux of 0.3 to 0.5 MW/m2, with the first wall mock-up is scheduled under inlet conditions of 8 MPa, 300 °C, and a 0.5 kg/s helium flow rate, which is based on the operating condition of HCCR in 2013.