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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
M. E. Rensink, T. D. Rognlien
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 1 | January 2015 | Pages 125-141
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-800
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Simulations of the heat flux on plasma-facing components from core exhaust plasma are reported for two possible ACT1 divertor configurations. One configuration uses divertor plates strongly inclined with respect to the poloidal magnetic flux surfaces similar to that planned for ITER and results in a partially detached divertor plasma. The second configuration has divertor plates orthogonal to the flux surfaces, which leads to a fully detached divertor plasma if the width of the divertor region is sufficient. Both configurations use scrape-off layer radiation from seeded impurities to yield an acceptable peak heat flux of ∼10 MW/m2 or smaller on the divertor plates and chamber walls. The simulations are performed with the UEDGE two-dimensional transport code to model both plasma and neutral components with some supplementary neutral modeling performed with the DEGAS 2 Monte Carlo code.