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Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
H. Hasegawa, H. Nakashima, T. Matsui, M. Ohta
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 86 | Number 4 | April 1984 | Pages 405-409
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A18642
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An examination is made of the helical geometry effect on the tritium breeding in the Heliotron reactor blanket. Calculations are performed with the three-dimensional Monte Carlo code MORSE-I for the cylindrical, torus and helical geometry models, each approximating the configuration of the Heliotron reactor in various degrees. A comparison of the tritium breeding ratios obtained between these models indicates that the helical geometry effects would be modest. However, it is found that there exists neutron streaming through between blanket regions, due to the helical geometry of the system.