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Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
T. Okui, K. Matsuhiro, M. Isobe, M. Nishikawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 934-938
Divertor and Plasma-Facing Components | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963360
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A pebble divertor concept is to use the flow of multi layer pebbles as plasma facing component In the divertor plasma, the falling behavior of pebbles is affected by various forces: electromagnetic force, electrostatic force, plasma static pressure and plasma momentum flux. The forces against pebbles in divertor plasma are calculated by referring the edge modeling result of an ITER CDA type divertor. The result of the calculation is that the behavior of pebbles is dominantly affected by the plasma momentum flux. The influence of the electromagnetic force, the electrostatic force and the plasma static pressure can be negligible.
