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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.
V. Drüke, D. Filges, N. Kirch, R. D. Neef
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 57 | Number 4 | August 1975 | Pages 328-332
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A15424
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Experiments in a subcritical assembly with pebble-bed high-temperature gas-cooled reactor fuel and hydrogen ranging between 0 and 14.4 vol% were carried out to study the effects of water ingress on reactivity and to test the accuracy of diffusion-code calculations for small subcritical systems. Special emphasis is given to an adequate description of the influence of the water ingress on the diffusion properties of the pebble-bed system. The agreement between experimental and theoretical results is in all cases better than ±0.01 in keff.
