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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.
Luis Chacón, George H. Miley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1320-1325
Innovative Approaches to Fusion Energy | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963131
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
D-3He fusion minimizes neutrons and maximizes charged fusion products, enabling increased energy recovery efficiency by direct conversion. However, scarce 3He terrestrial resources1 have deterred research & development (R&D) on this alternative. Here, we explore 3He production through inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) breeders, which supply 3He to field-reversed configuration (FRC) satellite reactors.2 The breeder-satellite system is analyzed in terms of energy balance, taking the net energy gain of the overall system as the key parameter. An economic study determines the competitiveness of breeding with respect to 3He lunar mining, already shown to be an attractive route for commercial exploitation.3
