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Second round of Launch Pad selections includes eight newcomers
The National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory has announced 13 project selections across 12 companies for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, a Department of Energy–led program that integrates reactor and fuel facility authorization, testing, and deployment support for private nuclear developers.
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Kazuyuki Takase
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 930-935
Plasma Facing Components Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963732
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
An analytical study of the turbulent heat transfer in the helium-cooling porous channels for fusion reactors was performed using a direct-simulation numerical approach with no empirical correlations such as the Darcy's law and effective thermal conduction in the porous media. A numerical analysis code for the helium-cooling porous channels was developed and preliminary numerical analyses were carried out. A new porous calculation model was proposed. The porous media was simulated as cubic solids and the direct-contact thermal conduction in the channel was simulated using solid bars. From the numerical analysis results, it was identiñed that the present porous model is useful to predict the turbulent heat transfer characteristics in the helium-cooling porous channel.