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Custom equipment lets ORNL scale up molten salt investigations
Transparency is one advantage of certain molten salts that could serve as both a coolant and fuel carrier in an advanced reactor. For scientists studying molten salt chemistry and behavior at the laboratory scale, it helps if the test vessel is transparent too. Now, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has created a custom glass test cell with a 1-liter capacity to observe how gases move within a column of molten salt, the Department of Energy announced August 5.
M. A. Malik, K. Indireshkumar, John Mandrekas, W. M. Stacey, Jr., T. W. Ogden
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 13 | Number 3 | March 1988 | Pages 432-437
Technical Paper | Alpha-Particle Workshop / Alpha Workshop | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25120
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Impurity flow reversal based on coinjected neutral beams and on electron cyclotron resonance heating are considered as possible mechanisms for alpha ash removal from tokamak reactors. Both formalisms are applied to the TIBER-II parameters and preliminary results are reported.