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At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
Robin Miles, Mark Havstad, Mary LeBlanc, Ilya Golosker, Allan Chang, Paul Rosso
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 4 | November 2015 | Pages 780-787
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-904
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External heat transfer coefficients were measured around a surrogate indirect inertial confinement fusion target based on the laser inertial fusion energy (LIFE) target to validate thermal models of the LIFE target during flight through a fusion chamber. Results indicated that heat transfer coefficients for this target, in the range of 25 to 50 W/m2·K, were consistent with theoretically derived heat transfer coefficients and are valid for use in calculation of target heating during flight through a fusion chamber.