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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Yoshitaka Ueki, Yuya Noguchi, Juro Yagi, Teruya Tanaka, Takehiko Yokomine, Masaru Hirabayashi, Kuniaki Ara, Tomoaki Kunugi, Akio Sagara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 72 | Number 3 | October 2017 | Pages 530-536
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1330636
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The lead-lithium eutectic alloy (PbLi) is a promising coolant for nuclear fusion reactors. Although PbLi flow and heat transfer in a nuclear fusion reactor condition needs to be comprehended, no velocity profile measurement techniques have been developed yet. Since PbLi is a high-temperature liquid metal, ultrasonic Doppler velocimetry (UDV) is a promising method. In the present study, we investigated a UDV measurement in a high-purity PbLi forced convection loop environment. In summary, naturally contained oxide particles as flow tracers could differ by PbLi purity, and this difference could influence UDV measurability.