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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.
M.R. Manavazhi, P. Cooper, W.D. Booth, J. Borcherding, G. Brunson, R. Carrera, J.H. Gully, J. Quinones, W.A. Walls
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1194-1198
Ignition Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29505
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The IGNITEX concept proposed by Profs. Rosenbluth, Weldon and Woodson along the lines of Prof. Coppi's idea for a compact thermonuclear experiment has the potential to produce and control ignited plasmas with relative simplicity and low cost. This paper discusses the design and construction methodologies that will be adopted for the construction of some of the key components of the facility for the fusion ignition experiment IGNITEX. A master schedule in the form of a bar chart derived from a CPM network developed for the IGNITEX project is presented. The level of detail in this paper is consistent with the degree of development of the IGNITEX design to date.
