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ANS designates Armour Research Foundation Reactor as Nuclear Historic Landmark
The American Nuclear Society presented the Illinois Institute of Technology with a plaque last week to officially designate the Armour Research Foundation Reactor a Nuclear Historic Landmark, following the Society’s decision to confer the status onto the reactor in September 2024.
N. M. Ghoniem, M. A. Firestone, R. W. Conn
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1133-1145
Fusion Reactor Design—II | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24884
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Operational aspects of a model tokamak system with a solid-breeder blanket are presented. The model blanket is an evolution of the STARFIRE and BCSS design studies. Full-power reactor operation is at a neutron wall loading of 5 MW/m2 and a surface heat flux of 1 MW/m2. The blanket is a pressurized steel module with bare beryllium rods and low-activation HT-9-(9-C-) clad LiA102 rods. The helium coolant pressure is 5 MPa, entering the module at 297°C and exiting at 550°C. The system power output is rated at 1000 MW(e). In this paper, we present our findings on various operational scenarios and their impact on system design. We first start with the salient aspects of operational physics. Time-dependent analyses of the blanket and balance of plant are then presented.
