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TVA nominees promise to support advanced reactor development
Four nominees to serve on the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that they support the build-out of new advanced nuclear reactors to meet the increased energy demand being shouldered by the country’s largest public utility.
Francois Abbe, Vincent Herb, Gerald Camus, Eric Martin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 2 | August 2009 | Pages 1009-1012
Divertors and High Heat Flux Components | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A9042
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Design and optimization of a plasma facing component calls for dedicated constitutive laws which can handle the non linear behaviour typical of composite materials when applying this class of materials. This paper depicts the different phases of characterization and modelling which are required. Compared to a classical elastic analysis, this approach provides a more realistic estimate of the stress distribution within a thermally loaded PFC as demonstrated by finite element computations performed on a plasma facing component with a macrobloc[registered trademark] geometry.
