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X-energy receives federal tax credit for TRISO fuel facility
Advanced reactor company X-energy has been awarded $148.5 million in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Gautam Pulugundla, Sergey Smolentsev, Tyler Rhodes, Charlie Kawczynski, Mohamed Abdou
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 3 | October 2015 | Pages 684-689
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-983
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Interaction between liquid metal flows and non-uniform magnetic fields occurs in certain regions of fusion power reactors such as the breeding blanket access pipes. Here, the resulting high MHD pressure drop leads to numerous design challenges. Therefore, in this paper we perform numerical simulations to analyze the effect of a non-uniform transverse magnetic field on a liquid metal flow in a straight electrically conducting pipe. In particular, we perform parametric analyses at different conductance ratios and magnetic interaction parameters to quantify their effect on MHD pressure drop in pipes. The results also help in establishing a range for the control parameters in which the flow transforms from a quasi-fully developed to a fully three-dimensional state.