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South Korea looks to Southern and NuScale
This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
J. P. Sharpe, B. J. Merrill, D. A. Petti
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 312-316
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Chamber Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A353
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Preliminary studies have been performed to evaluate the production of aerosols in wetted wall and solid wall IFE chamber configurations. Molten lead and flibe were examined for a wetted-wall chamber 6.5 m in radius, giving aerosol mass concentrations of 20 mg/m3 and 10 mg/m3, respectively, for a simulated 458 MJ indirect-drive target microexplosion. Solid wall materials of tungsten and steel exposed to a 154 MJ direct-drive target microexplosion within an equivalent chamber produced mass concentrations of 0.4 mg/m3 and 90 mg/m3, respectively.