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Feinstein Institutes to research novel radiation countermeasure
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, home of the research institutes of New York’s Northwell Health, announced it has received a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the potential of human ghrelin, a naturally occurring hormone, as a medical countermeasure against radiation-induced gastrointestinal syndrome (GI-ARS).
Kazuhisa Yuki, Hidetoshi Hashizume, Saburo Toda, Akio Sagara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 64 | Number 2 | August 2013 | Pages 325-330
Divertor and High-Heat-Flux Components | Proceedings of the Twentieth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE-2012) (Part 1), Nashville, Tennessee, August 27-31, 2012 | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A18098
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This study evaluates heat transfer characteristics of a sub-channels-inserted (SCI) porous heat removal device for divertor cooling. It is clarified that increasing the total volume of the sub-channels strongly contributes to the enhancement of phase-change of coolant as well as the vapor discharge. A high heat flux of approximately 25 MW/m2 is removed at a wall superheat less than 70 K by increasing the number of the sub-channels installed under low flow rate conditions. The results also suggest that the SCI porous heat removal device could be applicable for the divertor cooling by optimizing the sub-channel design. Furthermore, especially for an enlarged heating area, optimizing the location of the sub-channel inlet, that is the interval of each sub-channel inlet, could be essential in order to smoothly discharge the generated vapor outside the porous medium.
