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The Frisch-Peierls memorandum: A seminal document of nuclear history
The Manhattan Project is usually considered to have been initiated with Albert Einstein’s letter to President Franklin Roosevelt in October 1939. However, a lesser-known document that was just as impactful on wartime nuclear history was the so-called Frisch-Peierls memorandum. Prepared by two refugee physicists at the University of Birmingham in Britain in early 1940, this manuscript was the first technical description of nuclear weapons and their military, strategic, and ethical implications to reach high-level government officials on either side of the Atlantic. The memorandum triggered the initiation of the British wartime nuclear program, which later merged with the Manhattan Engineer District.
Ling Tao, Yuanlai Xie, Chundong Hu, Yongjian Xu, Wei Yi, Ning Tang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 6 | August 2022 | Pages 490-502
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2050131
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Currently, a neutral beam injection (NBI) system prototype with a 200-keV negative ion source, called the negative neutral beam injection (NNBI) system, is under construction for the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor Project. In the NNBI system, the calorimeter is an extremely important high-heat-flux component, and its panels have to withstand a heat flux density of up to dozens of MW/m2 under some extreme conditions; thus, its efficient heat transfer enhancement design and the corresponding supporting structural design are most important, especially under the condition of a 3600-s long pulse. According to the detailed design requirements of the NNBI system, an overall design scheme of the calorimeter based on the heat transfer enhancement structure of the swirl tube (SW for short) is proposed in this paper. By using the gas-liquid two-phase flow boiling model and the supporting structure’s finite element model, the heat transfer performance of the heat exchange module, the mass flow distribution and pressure drop of the entire cooling circuit of the component, and the strength of the support structure are evaluated to verify the feasibility of the design scheme. Finally, based on the proposed design scheme, the detailed design of the temperature monitor system, which has high reliability and economy, is completed. This research provides important theoretical and engineering support for the structural development of the calorimeter for the NNBI verification prototype and will also provide references for the design and development of other internal components of large-scale fusion devices.