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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
J. Erickson, T. Luzzi, D. Sedgley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 998-1003
Impurity Control and Vacuum Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22989
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A halo plasma scraper for a tandem mirror reactor collects the particles and power that enter the halo in the central cell. A thermal-structural design is presented for a water-cooled copper collector that sustains 40 MW loading. A vacuum system design is presented for a conductance channel and pump configuration to remove the halo particles at a designated gas pressure.
