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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
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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.
Günter Grieger
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 206-213
Next-Generation Device | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40047
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
INTOR is an international cooperatative project which started already in 1979. Its task is the demonstration of Tokamak reactor physics and to serve as a test bed for the development of fusion reactor technology. The development of the INTOR concept has reached a rather high degree of self-consistency. The concept is rather conservative in order to achieve sufficient predictability of performance. Particular discussion is devoted to the status of the INTOR physics data base and on the strategy of their generation. It is concluded that INTOR offers a chance to go to the next step within a reasonable time during which the data base will still be improved. The INTOR design concept is also very useful as a reference system for assessing the impact of innovative concepts.
