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Leading the charge: INL’s role in advancing HALEU production
Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
Takashi Kato, Kunihiro Matsui, Susumu Shimamoto, Kazuhiko Nishida, Tadaaki Honda, Kazuya Hamada, Hiroshi Tsuji, Neil Michel, Kiyoshi Yoshida
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1253-1257
Fusion Magnet Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963120
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One of the safety analysis for superconducting magnet system in International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) was carried out. The ITER cryostat will hold many superconducting magnets, such as twenty of toroidal field coils, a central solenoid coil, and seven poloidal coils. Loss of vacuum of the cryostat was considered as the worst assumption and the safety analysis of the magnets was examined when the assumption would be occurred. Accordingly, the loss of vacuum will cause the loss of thermal shield vacuum for the magnets and then a large heat transfer will be generated in the cryostat The magnet pressure and temperature will rise, bringing the magnets to quench. Such behavior was simulated by using a developed computer-aided calculation code. As a result of the calculation, a catastrophic phenomenon doesn't appear in the assumption. It is observed that a quasi-stable state, where the magnet temperature is kept to be less than 7 K, is maintained for more than 600 seconds. Thus, the magnet current can be slowly discharged like as the ordinal operation without magnet quench even in such worst assumption due to a large volume of the cryostat.