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This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
S. Keniley, D. Curreli
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 71 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 93-102
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST16-117
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We present an innovative coupled Boltzmann–binary collision approximation (BCA) method for the simulation of the near-wall plasma in the presence of a material-releasing wall. The method is based on a full-f multispecies Boltzmann solver for the plasma (charged and neutral species) coupled to a modification of the classical BCA code TRIDYN. Both the plasma ions and the impurities are treated as Boltzmann kinetic species, allowing high resolution even at very disparate densities, particle fluxes, drift velocities, and energy fluxes. From the distribution functions, all the fluid moments (density, heat flux, etc.) and the net and gross erosion rates are derived. An example of calculation of a helium plasma facing a beryllium wall is reported, showing the evolution of the phase-spaces of ions, neutrals, and material impurities in the near-wall region at nominal ITER conditions.