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Fermilab center renamed after late particle physicist Helen Edwards
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Integrated Engineering Research Center, which officially opened in January 2024, is now known as the Helen Edwards Engineering Center. The name was changed to honor the late particle physicist who led the design, construction, commissioning, and operation of the lab’s Tevatron accelerator and was part of the Water Resources Development Act signed by President Biden in December 2024, according to a Fermilab press release.
Yu. Igitkhanov, R. Fetzer, B. Bazylev, L. Boccaccini
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 3 | October 2015 | Pages 516-520
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-943
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Thermo-hydraulic analyses of the tungsten mono-block divertor module with a water cooling tube made from a diamond/copper composite (DCC) as a laminate and a martensitic steel EUROFER against the power loadings expecting in DEMO operation is presented. Thermal analysis is carried out by using the code MEMOS, which simulates W armor damage under the repetitive edge localized modes (ELM) heat impact. Heat transfer to the water coolant is studied for various coolant conditions which allow one to keep the material temperatures within the allowable design limits under neutron irradiation. The thermal performance is analyzed for the DEMO I and DEMO II reactor conditions for un-mitigated and mitigated ELMs. The importance of W vapor shielding effect is discussed.
