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타이틀	Documentation of Stainless Steel Lithium Circuit Test Section Design.
저자	Godfroy, T. J.;; Martin, J. J.;; Stewart, E. T.;; Rhys, N. O.
Keyword	CIRCUITS;; ELECTROMAGNETIC PUMPS;; FISSION;; HEAT EXCHANGERS;; LIQUID METALS;; LITHIUM;; LOADS (FORCES); POTASSIUM;; STAINLESS STEELS;; TEST CHAMBERS;; TEST FACILITIES
URL	http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20100031094
보고서번호	NASA/TP-2010-216437
발행년도	2010
출처	NTRS (NASA Technical Report Server)
ABSTRACT	The Early Flight Fission-Test Facilities (EFF-TF) team was tasked by Naval Reactors Prime Contract Team (NRPCT) to design, fabricate, and test an actively pumped lithium (Li) flow circuit. This Li circuit takes advantage of work in progress at the EFF TF on a stainless steel sodium/potassium (NaK) circuit. The effort involved modifying the original stainless steel NaK circuit such that it could be operated with Li in place of NaK. This new design considered freeze/thaw issues and required the addition of an expansion tank and expansion/extrusion volumes in the circuit plumbing. Instrumentation has been specified for Li and circuit heaters have been placed throughout the design to ensure adequate operational temperatures and no uncontrolled freezing of the Li. All major components have been designed and fabricated prior to circuit redesign for Li and were not modified. Basic circuit components include: reactor segment, Li to gas heat exchanger, electromagnetic liquid metal pump, load/drain reservoir, expansion reservoir, instrumentation, and trace heaters. The reactor segment, based on a Los Alamos National Laboratory 100-kW design study with 120 fuel pins, is the only prototypic component in the circuit. However, due to earlier funding constraints, a 37-pin partial-array of the core, including the central three rings of fuel pins (pin and flow path dimensions are the same as those in the full design), was selected for fabrication and test. This Technical Publication summarizes the design and integration of the pumped liquid metal Li flow circuit as of May 1, 2005.