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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 1 | January 1995 | Pages 3-24
Technical Paper | Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30346
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Magnetohydrodynamic flows play an important role in the design of liquid-metal fusion reactor blankets. The interaction of the plasma-confining strong magnetic field and the electrically conducting coolant and breeding material may cause high pressure drop and unusual flow structures compared with hydrodynamic flows. In strong magnetic fields, duct flows exhibit a core where viscous effects are unimportant, while all flow variables are matched to the boundary conditions within extremely thin layers. In the inertialess inductionless limit, the governing equations can be reduced to a set of coupled two-dimensional equations for pressure and potential through analytical integration in the core and the layers. The use of curvilinear boundary-fitted coordinates leads to a unique numerical procedure for flow calculations in arbitrary geometries. The wide range of possible applications is demonstrated by some examples.