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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.
S. B. Brumbach, P. J. Collins
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 103 | Number 3 | November 1989 | Pages 219-236
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-2
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Experiments in Zero-Power Physics Reactor 17 provided physics data for a full-scale axially heterogeneous 650-MW(electric) liquid-metal reactor. Measurements and analysis are reported for control rod worths, reaction rate distributions, gamma dose distributions, sodium void worths, and criticality. Agreement between measurement and calculation is generally satisfactory, but the axial heterogeneity did introduce analytical complications. Design-level calculation methods gave somewhat worse agreement with measurements than in previous homogeneous or radially heterogeneous assemblies.