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Zaporizhzhia ‘extremely fragile’ relying on single off-site power line, IAEA warns
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant has just one remaining power line for essential nuclear safety and security functions, compared with its original 10 functional lines before the military conflict with Russia, warned Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
A.Y. Ying, M. Abdou, S. Smolentsev, H. Huang, R. Kaita, R. Maingi, N. Morley, B. Nelson, T. Sketchley, M. Ulrickson, R. Woolley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 739-745
Chamber Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963327
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In the APEX study, one of the tasks focuses on the exploration and identification of the attractive options and issues for flowing liquid lithium walls in the NSTX device. In addition to constraints imposed by the machine, the operating conditions of the flowing liquid walls along the center stack and divertor areas are guided by MHD and heat removal requirements. In this paper, we present important MHD and heat removal issues and analysis for the proposed free surface lithium flows under NSTX conditions. It is shown that of all MHD effects, the one caused by the normal magnetic field is the most important. The flow over the center stack area is not affected by MHD interaction significantly, whereas flow over the inboard divertor undergoes strong MHD drag resulting in flow thickening by several times. The flow over the outboard divertor is essentially stopped. The analysis shows that a flow with an inlet velocity of 2 m/s and film thickness of about 4 mm can be established to provide surface temperature less than 400° C for the center stack under a projected NSTX total heating power of 10 MW operation.