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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Sheida Saeidi, Sergey Smolentsev, Mohamed Abdou
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 2 | September 2015 | Pages 282-287
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-964
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The present study addresses corrosion of RAFM steel in the flowing eutectic alloy PbLi in a special case of the 1-D magnetohydrodynamic Hartmann flow, where the liquid metal flows in a wall-normal magnetic field. For this flow, the effect of a magnetic field on corrosion and transport of corrosion products are studied analytically, using a self-similar mass transfer model, and numerically. The results are presented in the form of the dimensionless mass transfer coefficient (the Sherwood number, Sh) as a function of dimensionless flow parameters, the Reynolds (Re) and the Hartmann (Ha) numbers. In turbulent flows, Sh decreases as Ha increases due to turbulence suppression by a magnetic field. In laminar flows, Sh slightly increases with the magnetic field due to formation of steep velocity gradients at the Hartmann wall. The obtained results are then applied to analysis of corrosion for a family of PbLi blankets.
