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South Korea looks to Southern and NuScale
This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
Young-Dug Bae, Suk-Kwon Kim, Dong-Won Lee, Bong-Guen Hong
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 1 | July 2009 | Pages 91-95
Divertor and High Heat Flux Components | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A8882
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A high heat flux test facility using a graphite heating panel was constructed and is presently in operation at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, which is called KoHLT-1. One of the major purposes of this facility is to carry out a thermal cycle test of the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) FWQM (first wall qualification mockup). The facility is equipped with a graphite heating element, a water cooled box-type vacuum chamber, and diagnostic systems. Two mockups are installed in the chamber; two facing mockups are simultaneously heated by a graphite heater installed between two mockups. The graphite heating element has an effective irradiation area of 244 mm × 80 mm and its electrical power is provided by a 40 kW DC power supply. The diagnostic system consists of two independent calorimetric power measuring systems, thermocouples, a vacuum gauge, and a CCD camera. Water cooling, Be treatment, and vacuum pumping systems are also equipped. We performed thermal cycle tests for two Cu mockups, and for Cu and Cu/SS mockups ensure the performance of the KoHLT-1. After that, we carried out thermal cycle tests up to 220 cycles for Cu mockup and FWQM at 0.65 MW/m2, from which the reliability of the KoHLT-1 was verified.