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ARPA-E announces $40 million to develop transmutation technologies for UNF
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) announced $40 million in funding to develop cutting-edge technologies to enable the transmutation of used nuclear fuel into less-radioactive substances. According to ARPA-E, the new initiative addresses one of the agency’s core goals as outlined by Congress: to provide transformative solutions to improve the management, cleanup, and disposal of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel.
Igor Kupriyanov, Nikolay Porezanov, George Nikolaev, Liudmila Kurbatova, Vyacheslav Podkovyrov, Anatoly Muzichenko, Anatoly Zhitlukhin, Yury Gasparyan, Alexander Gervash
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 171-179
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-749
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Beryllium will be used as a plasma-facing material for the ITER first wall. It is expected that erosion of beryllium under transient plasma loads such as the edge-localized modes (ELMs) and disruptions will determine the lifetime of the ITER first wall. The results of recent experiments with the Russian beryllium of TGP-56FW ITER grade on the QSPA-Be plasma gun facility are presented. The Be/CuCrZr mock-ups were tested by deuterium plasma and radiative streams both with pulse duration of 0.5 ms and heat loads of 0.5 and 0.4 MJ/m2, correspondingly. Experiments were performed at 250 °C. The beryllium mock-ups were exposed to up to 100 shots. After 10, 40 and 100 shots, the evolution of surface microstructure and crack morphology were investigated as well as beryllium mass loss under the erosion process. The deuterium retention in erosion products was also studied by the thermal desorption method.