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Discovering, Making, and Testing New Materials: SRNL’s Center For Hierarchical Waste Form Materials
Savannah River National Laboratory researchers are building on the laboratory’s legacy of using cutting-edge science to effectively immobilize nuclear waste in innovative ways. As part of the Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials, SRNL is leveraging its depth of experience in radiological waste management to explore new frontiers in the industry.
Jeremy A. Burke, X. R. Wang, M. S. Tillack, ARIES Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 213-217
Divertor & High Heat Flux Components | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12354
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The current T-tube divertor design consists of modular helium cooled units. The individual units consist of a steel inner cartridge enclosed in a tungsten alloy outer structure. On top of the outer tube is a layer of pure tungsten armor. Past design and analysis of the T-tube divertor concept has shown that it can accommodate a heat flux up to 10MW/m2. With recent concerns that steady state or transient heat fluxes may be higher than this in the divertor region, the T-tube concept was modified so that it may accommodate higher heat fluxes.
