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Joint NEA project performs high-burnup test
An article in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s July news bulletin noted that a first test has been completed for the High Burnup Experiments in Reactivity Initiated Accident (HERA) project. The project aim is to understand the performance of light water reactor fuel at high burnup under reactivity-initiated accidents (RIA).
A. I. Zhmoginov, N. J. Fisch
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 57 | Number 4 | May 2010 | Pages 361-368
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A9498
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The linear magnetic trap is an attractive concept both for fusion reactors and for other plasma applications because of its relative engineering simplicity and high-beta operation. Applying the -channeling technique to linear traps such as mirror machines can benefit this concept by efficiently redirecting -particle energy to fuel ion heating or by otherwise sustaining plasma confinement, thus increasing the effective fusion reactivity. To identify waves suitable for channeling, a rough optimization of the energy extraction rate with respect to the wave parameters is performed. After the optimal regime is identified, a systematic search for modes with similar parameters in mirror plasmas is performed, assuming quasi-longitudinal or quasi-transverse wave propagation. Several modes suitable for -particle energy extraction are identified for both reactor designs and for proof-of-principle experiments.