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In transition: Commercializing fusion power
Commercial fusion power is closer than ever. There are now around 30 U.S. fusion companies, several of which claim to be on track to connect to the grid as early as the 2030s.
Tokamak and laser inertial confinement approaches benefit from decades of research at facilities such as the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and ITER, with alternative concepts including stellarator, magnetic mirror, and Z-pinch confinement also making notable progress as private and government funding for fusion increases.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 3 | November 1984 | Pages 275-286
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A18582
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A test rig was built to run steady-state experiments with air/water mixtures at low pressure (42 kPa), and to determine the performance characteristics of two-phase flow through a centrifugal pump. Application is to a loss-of-coolant accident situation in nuclear reactor power plants if a large break in one of the primary pump legs took place. Two feasible accident conditions were tested; first- (forward flow and rotation) and third-quadrant (reverse flow and rotation) conditions. A significant head-pump degradation process was observed in the first-quadrant operation for increasing amounts of gas supplied, whereas in the third quadrant no difference in performance was detected with respect to single-phase flow and up to an inlet volumetric quality of 20%. The data gathered have been correlated in terms of a defined head-loss ratio, flow coefficient, and volumetric quality, which facilitates its use in predicting pump performance in similar designs of different scale.