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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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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.
Lawrence Ruby, Tai-Ping Lung
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 1 | January 1979 | Pages 107-109
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A21293
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Ancillary 6Li + 6Li reactions will produce products, some of which are radioactive, in a fusion reactor operating on the 6Li(p,α)3He cycle. Available cross-section data for 6Li + 6Li reactions have been used to compute the reaction rates as a function of temperature in such a reactor. Below 80 keV, the rate of ancillary reactions is less than that for 1H + 6Li by at least 103, but this factor diminishes until at 270 keV it is only ∼10. An appreciable fraction of the ancillary reactions leads to the radioactive products 7Be + n.
