Description of a facility for vapor clearing rates studies of IFE reactors flibe liquid chambers

Fusion Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 711-715

  Calderoni, Pattrick ^a   Ying, Alice ^a   Sketchley, Tom ^a   Abdou, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; FUSION REACTIONS; JETS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; VAPORS;

ADVANCED LIQUID IONIZED CONDENSATION EXPERIMENTS (ALICE); FLIBE CASTING; LIQUID WALL CHAMBERS;

FUSION REACTORS;

EID: 0035270773     PISSN: 07481896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/fst01-a11963322     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. J.D. Hurley, M.A. Bourham, J.G. Gilligan, "Numerical simulation and experiment of plasma flow in the electrothermal launcher SIRENS", IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, 31, 1, 616-621 (1995).
2. J.G. Gilligan, M. Bourham, "The use of an electrothermal plasma gun to simulate the extremely high heat flux conditions of a Tokamak disruption", Jour. of Fusion Energy, 12, 3, 311-316 (1993).
3. P. Calderoni, A. Ying, T. Sketchley, M. A. Abdou, "An Experimental Facility to Investigate Vapor Condensation and Chamber Vapor Clearing Rates for Inertial Fusion Energy Reactors Liquid Walls", Proc. IAEA Tech. on Physics and Technology of IFE Targets and Chambers, Madrid, Spain, June 2000.
4. J. M. Meek, J. D. Craggs, Electrical breakdown of gases, pp. 80-147, Wiley, New York (1978).
5. R.B. Mohanti, J.G. Gilligan, "Time dependent simulation of the plasma discharge's, in an electrothermal launcher", IEEE Trans, on Magnetics, 29, 1, 585-590 (1993).
6. Cantor S., D.S. Hsu, W.T. Ward, "Vapor pressure of fluoride melts", Reactor Chem. Div. Ann. Progr. Rept., ORNL-3913, 24-26, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1965).
7. D.K. Sze, M.E. Sawan, E.T.Cheng, "Impact of transmutations in fusion environment on flibe chemistry", Proc. XIV Topical on Technology of Fusion Energy, Park City (UT), Oct 2000.
8. J.P. Sharpe, M.A. Bourham, J.G. Gilligan, "Generation and characterization of carbon particulate in disruption simulations", Fusion Technology, 34, 3, 634-639 (1998).