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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.
S. Konishi, T. Hayashi, M. Inoue, K. Okuno, Y. Naruse, H. Sato, H. Fukui, K. Nemoto, M. Kurokawa, J.W. Barnes, J.L. Anderson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 999-1004
Material; Storage and Processing | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29882
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The Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) has developed a full scale Fuel Cleanup System (JFCU) that processes a simulated plasma exhaust at the Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) in the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The JFCU was designed by the Tritium Process Laboratory (TPL) of the JAERI based on the component studies performed under previous TSTA-TPL collaboration and the pilot scale experiment using grams of tritium at the TPL. The JFCU accepts a simulated fusion reactor exhaust, a mixture of hydrogen isotopes with an impurity level of up to 15% at a throughput of 4.2x10−3 mol/s continuously and produces pure hydrogen isotopes while exhausting tritium-free waste gas. Some newly developed components, such as the Ceramic Electrolysis Cell and the large Zirconium-Cobalt bed, required special attention during fabrication and assembly. The apparatus was fabricated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and installed at the TSTA in early 1990. Interfacing with the existing TSTA facility also required careful interaction between TSTA and JAERI.