Hybrid reactors: nuclear breeding or energy production? [PDF]
, 2010 After reviewing the long-standing tradition on hybrid research, an assessment model is presented in order to characterize the hybrid performance under different objectives. In hybrids, neutron multiplication in the subcritical blanket plays a major role,
Abánades Velasco, Alberto +3 more
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Liquid lead-lithium in eutectic proportions (Pb-Li) is a candidate material for Breeding Blankets (BBs) in future Fusion Power Plants (FPP). BB design depends on the diffusivity and Sieverts’ constant (solubility) of tritium in this alloy, but literature
Tiago Pomella Lobo +2 more
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Liquid surfaces for fusion plasma facing components—A critical review. Part I: Physics and PSI
Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2016 This review of the potential of robust plasma facing components (PFCs) with liquid surfaces for applications in future D/T fusion device summarizes the critical issues for liquid surfaces and research being done worldwide in confinement facilities, and ...
R.E. Nygren, F.L. Tabarés
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Living coal : Robert Boyle, John Holland, and the bodily passages of chimney sweep literature, 1684-1824 [PDF]
, 2018 This project attends to a body of literature that registers the extraordinary and tragic effects of chimneys infused with living coal upon young chimney sweeps.
Goheen, Jeremy Cameron
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Conceptual design of the EU-DEMO dual coolant lithium lead equatorial module [PDF]
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Fernández, I. +6 more
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The use of zirconium hydride blankets in a minor actinide thorium burner sodium-cooled reactor for void coefficient control with particular reference to UK's plutonium disposition problem [PDF]
, 2015 The use of zirconium hydride (Th–ZrH1.6) blankets in a thorium-fuelled sodium-cooled reactor for void reactivity control with particular reference to UK's plutonium disposition problem is proposed and considered.
Arias, FJ, Parks, GT
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A Thermal Discrete Element Analysis of EU Solid Breeder Blanket subjected to Neutron Irradiation
, 2014 Due to neutron irradiation, solid breeder blankets are subjected to complex thermo-mechanical conditions. Within one breeder unit, the ceramic breeder bed is composed of spherical-shaped lithium orthosilicate pebbles, and as a type of granular material ...
Annabattula, Ratna +5 more
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Three-dimensional MHD flow and heat transfer in a channel with internal obstacle [PDF]
, 2018 The magnetohydrodynamic flow and heat transfer of a liquid metal in a channel past a circular cylinder with walls of non-uniform conductivity were investigated. The applied magnetic field was transversal to the forced flow (x-direction) and coplanar with
Caruso, Gianfranco +2 more
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Nuclear Energy and Technology, 2016 The possible role of existing thorium reserves in the Russian Federation on engaging thorium in being currently closed (U-Pu)—fuel cycle of nuclear power of the country is considered.
G.G. Kulikov +4 more
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Crushing behaviour of Li4SiO4 and Li2TiO3 ceramic particles
Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2022 The crushing behaviour of certain ceramic particles–such as Li4SiO4 and Li2TiO3 have been investigated herein, which are considered to be ideal particles for use in the pebble-bed structure of tritium breeding blankets.
Mingzhun Lei +3 more
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