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Securing the advanced reactor fleet
Physical protection accounts for a significant portion of a nuclear power plant’s operational costs. As the U.S. moves toward smaller and safer advanced reactors, similar protection strategies could prove cost prohibitive. For tomorrow’s small modular reactors and microreactors, security costs must remain appropriate to the size of the reactor for economical operation.
Vladimir M. Fedorov, Vladimir P. Tarakanov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 320-324
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963876
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The article present our recent results of computer simulations and theory analysis concerning of dynamics of the crossed E×B-fields back-bombardment (BKB) instability in magnetron diodes. The concept of the BKB-instability applied to show new explanation for known experimental data of an intense ion heating in accelerated plasma streams. Main features of the BKB-instability into ion diodes are following: 1) ion magnetic insulation is d0 > ri where d0 is accelerating gap across applied magnetic field B0, ri = 5V00.5/B0 is proton Larmor radius, cm; V0 – applied voltage, kV; B0 – kG; 2) EA ≠ 0 is high electric field on self or secondary emission anode electrodes; 3) main frequency oscillation of fs = fci/2 = 0.76 B0 MHz; 4) convert power efficiency of ηB = P~/P0 is up to 50%.
Radial proton HF-oscillations current density of the Jir provided by the BKB-instability excites magnetohydrodynamics waves. They are propagated in the tube plasma with azimuthal velocity v∼9 ~ 107 cm/s (Miv∼92 ~ eV0) and along the B0 with the vA ~ 4×107 cm/s -Alfven velocity. Known experimental data was demonstrated a level of the HF-oscillation power which was absorbed by proton streams by ion cyclotron heating equals up to 30% total supply power of the 1 MW.
Work supported by RFFI under grant 96-02-19215.