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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.
Gautam Pulugundla, Sergey Smolentsev, Tyler Rhodes, Charlie Kawczynski, Mohamed Abdou
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 3 | October 2015 | Pages 684-689
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-983
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Interaction between liquid metal flows and non-uniform magnetic fields occurs in certain regions of fusion power reactors such as the breeding blanket access pipes. Here, the resulting high MHD pressure drop leads to numerous design challenges. Therefore, in this paper we perform numerical simulations to analyze the effect of a non-uniform transverse magnetic field on a liquid metal flow in a straight electrically conducting pipe. In particular, we perform parametric analyses at different conductance ratios and magnetic interaction parameters to quantify their effect on MHD pressure drop in pipes. The results also help in establishing a range for the control parameters in which the flow transforms from a quasi-fully developed to a fully three-dimensional state.