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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Y. Ikeda, C. Konno, Y. Oyama, K. Oishi, T. Nakamura
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 1287-1292
Blanket Nucleonics Experiment | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39867
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Neutron spectrum measurement based on the foil activation technique was carried out as a part of the JAERI/USDOE collaborative program on fusion blanket neutronics. The adequacy of the foil activation technique and the current dosimetry nuclear data for the D-T fusion neutron field were examined through the analysis of the spectrum in a Li2O blanket system enclosed with the Li2CO3. A method using a pair of activation indices (MPI) is newly proposed to evaluate the neutron flux around the MeV region of interest in a qualitative way. The multi-foil activation technique (MFA) with proper detector cross section data are promising to determine neutron spectra over a wide energy range.
