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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Alan L. Hoffman
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1367-1371
Innovative Approaches to Fusion Energy | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963139
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Field-reversed configurations (FRC) have been recognized as possessing almost ideal fusion reactor characteristics from the point of view of engineering simplicity and maintainability. The external geometry is cylindrical while the internal magnetic field configuration is toroidal, allowing for both a simple magnetic confinement design and the possibility of good plasma confinement. FRCs are unique among all toroidal confinement concepts in not possessing any significant toroidal field. This necessitates a very high plasma beta, which provides for extreme compactness, but imposes very non-standard requirements for basic stability. Recent experimental results have gone far toward demonstrating this stability, and new experiments are underway toward developing other aspects along the FRC reactor development path. If successful, these experiments could represent a breakthrough in fusion reactor attractiveness.