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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.
Sadayoshi Murakami, Noriyoshi Nakajima, Masao Okamoto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 256-259
Helical Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947082
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Finite β effects on the ICRF minority heating and NBI heating are investigated in the Large Helical Device (LHD) by means of the Monte Carlo simulation code using the numerically calculated magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium. The large Shafranov shift occurs in finite β to change the magnetic field configuration and to alter the particle drift motions. It is found that the change of magnetic field configuration due to finite β effects enhances the losses of high energetic trapped particles produced by ICRF heating. However the clear change of heating efficiency is not observed in finite β. It is also found that the deposition profile of neutral beams is modified due to the Shafranov shift in finite β and the center deposition is enhanced in high density case.
