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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.
Eckhard Krepper, Andreas Schaffrath, Attila Aszódi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 135 | Number 3 | July 2000 | Pages 267-279
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE00-A2139
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The SWR-1000 is a new innovative boiling water reactor (BWR) concept, which was developed by Siemens AG. This concept is characterized in particular by passive safety systems (e.g., four emergency condensers, four building condensers, eight passive pressure pulse transmitters, and six gravity-driven core-flooding lines). In the framework of the BWR Physics and Thermohydraulic Complementary Action to the European Union BWR Research and Development Cluster, emergency condenser tests were performed by Forschungszentrum Jülich at the NOKO test facility. Posttest calculations with ATHLET are presented, which aim at the determination of the removable power of the emergency condenser and its operation mode. The one-dimensional thermal-hydraulic code ATHLET was extended by the module KONWAR for the calculation of the heat transfer coefficient during condensation in horizontal tubes. In addition, results of conventional finite difference calculations using the code CFX-4 are presented, which investigate the natural convection during the heatup process at the secondary side of the NOKO test facility.