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DOE on track to deliver high-burnup SNF to Idaho by 2027
The Department of Energy said it anticipated delivering a research cask of high-burnup spent nuclear fuel from Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia to Idaho National Laboratory by fall 2027. The planned shipment is part of the High Burnup Dry Storage Research Project being conducted by the DOE with the Electric Power Research Institute.
As preparations continue, the DOE said it is working closely with federal agencies as well as tribal and state governments along potential transportation routes to ensure safety, transparency, and readiness every step of the way.
Watch the DOE’s latest video outlining the project here.
S. Gordeev, F. Gröschel, V. Heinzel, W. Hering, R. Stieglitz
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 3 | October 2015 | Pages 618-624
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-948
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IFMIF (International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility) is an accelerator based deuteron-lithium (D-Li) neutron source to simulate the neutron irradiation field in a fusion reactor. The target assembly of the IFMIF consists of the flow conditioners and the nozzle, which has to form a stable lithium jet. This work focuses on a numerical study of the flow conditioner efficiency, in which two different types of flow conditioners are compared by means of a detailed numerical analysis with respect to specific hydraulic effects in the pipe elbow and the inflow conditioners. The adequateness of two modelling approaches - Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) - to simulate an unstable flow through a 90° bend of circular cross section has been examined. Both methods investigated exhibit a reasonable agreement with the experimental data, but the DES approach does not require a very fine grid resolution and is less time consuming. The further conducted numerical analysis of the flow conditioner uses a DES approach. The calculations show that a honeycomb-screen combination is not capable to suppress effectively large scale swirl motions emerging from the bend. A frequency analysis of the static pressure fluctuation reveals instabilities in the shear layer between the separation zone and the accelerated outer region, which additionally increase the inhomogeneity of the axial velocity distribution.