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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Toshihide Tsunematsu, Masahiro Seki, Hiroshi Tsuji, Kiyoshi Okuno, Takashi Kato, Kiyoshi Shibanuma, Masaya Hanada, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Keishi Sakamoto, Tsuyoshi Imai, Koichiro Ezato, Masato Akiba
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 42 | Number 1 | July 2002 | Pages 75-93
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A214
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Japanese contributions to ITER engineering design activities are presented, together with an introduction of the objectives and design of the ITER, whose program has been carried out through international collaboration by the European Union, Japan, Russian Federation, and the United States. New technologies have been produced through the development, fabrication, and testing of scalable models in the fields of superconducting magnets, reactor structures with vacuum vessels, remote-maintenance machines, high-heat-flux plasma facing components, neutral beam injectors, high-power millimetre-wave generators, etc. As major contributions from Japan, development and testing results of a 13-T, 640-MJ, Nb3Sn pulsed magnet; an 18-deg sector of a vacuum vessel with a height of 15 m and a width of 9 m; CFC armor for a CuCrZr cooling tube that withstood 20 MW/m2; a 31 mA/cm2 negative ion beam source; a 1-MeV beam accelerator; and a 1-MW 170-GHz gyrotron are described.
