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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
Yury Titarenko, Viacheslav Batyaev, Alexey Titarenko, Michael Butko, Kirill Pavlov, Sergey Florya, Roman Tikhonov, Pavel Boyko, Alexey Kovalenko, Nikolai Sobolevsky, Vasily Anashin, Stepan Mashnik, Waclaw Gudowski, Nikolai Mokhov, Igor Rakhno
Nuclear Technology | Volume 168 | Number 2 | November 2009 | Pages 472-476
Shielding | Special Issue on the 11th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and the 15th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (Part 2) / Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A9227
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The Radiation Test Facility (RTF) is under construction at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics to control the electronics under irradiation of particles that imitate cosmic rays (protons, carbon, aluminum, iron, tin, bismuth, and uranium). For the norms of radiation safety of personnel and users of the RTF to be observed, a local shielding and beam dump must be designed. Simulations of the dose rates around the designed shielding and beam dump are carried out in the present work.
