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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
J. Gomez del Rio, J. Sanz, S. Reyes, J. F. Latkowski
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 1008-1012
Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963374
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Estimating radiological risks is an essential part of an assessment of fusion as an attractive source of energy. Due to the limited data specific to radionuclides of interest to fusion reactors, one of the goals of this work is to expand the Dose Conversion Factors (DCF) library for use in the calculation of different types of off-site doses and associated health effect consequences. This expansion accounts for about 300 radionuclides included in accidental activity releases from HYLIFE-II and SOMBRERO IFE Power Plants. Furthermore, for each of the radionuclides included in the new DCF library, we address a parametric study of accident consequences by varying the atmospheric stability, wind speed, rain conditions, and thermal plume rise. The results of these calculations allow us to identify the most troublesome radionuclides in terms of safety consequences as well as the impact of the different atmospheric scenarios.