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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
Ronald D. Boyd, Penrose Cofie, Ali Ekhlassi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 856-862
Divertor and Plasma-Facing Components | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963346
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The optimized design of one-side-heated plasma-facing components (PFC) is dependent on knowing the local distribution of inside wall heat flux in the flow channels. The local inside wall heat flux can be obtained from selectively chosen local PFC wall temperatures close to the inside boundary of the flow channel. To this end, three-dimensional thermal measurements for a one-side-heated monoblock were made and show: (1) the three-dimensional variation of the wall temperature close to both the heated and fluid-solid surface boundaries, (2) the resultant effects of local subcooled flow boiling on the 3-D wall temperature/outside heat flux relationship – one of which is the 3-D wall temperature profile is almost unchanged in the vicinity for incident heat flux levels between the onset to fully developed boiling and CHF, and (3) the occurrence of local CHF and local post-CHF. The monoblock has a 180.0 mm heated length, has a 10.0 mm inside diameter, and has a circular-like cross-section with a 30.0 mm nominal outside diameter.