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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.
R. M. Mayo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1635-1638
Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29954
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Data from single chord Doppler ion temperature measurements in spheromaks have been analyzed with the aid of a one dimensional equilibrium charge state transport code. With electron temperature profiles known from Thomson scattering and estimates for transport rates, we can determine the radial location for the impurity line emission. The results of these analyses are the reconstruction of one dimensional ion temperature profiles. From this Ti profile data we can now correctly calculate volume averaged confinement quantities. Our initial findings are that previously quoted values of ⟨β⟩ and ⟨τE⟩ were underestimated by a factor of ∼ 4 and now the highest quoted energy confinement times are ∼ 50µs.
