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Siting of Canadian repository gets support of tribal nation
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announced that Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation has indicated its willingness to support moving forward to the next phase of the site selection process to host a deep geological repository for Canada’s spent nuclear fuel.
Wenping Wang, Andrei Khodak, Irving Zatz, Alex Nagy, Peter Titus
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 8 | November 2019 | Pages 828-834
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1609822
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The absolute collimator currently in service at the DIII-D NB injection system has experienced localized melting and damage. As part of the DIII-D 210-deg beamline co-counter conversion, a new absolute collimator was needed, and the opportunity to resolve melting was found on the off-axis beamline configuration. The pulsed high heat flux and uneven distribution of the heat loads required the aperture surface to be axially extended to spread out and reduce the surface heat flux. Geometric sculpting of the absolute collimator aperture based on the baseline dimension was performed using ANSYS CFX software. The reshaped absolute collimator aperture surface reduces the impinged heat flux to below ~4 MW/m2. Two interchangeable inserts are designed to occupy the high heat flux region for mitigating the thermal-induced stresses. The design achieves the objective of 6-s pulse lengths with 10-min repetition rates using the original peripheral conduit cooling system in the new collimator with minor changes.