Development of an Extreme Environment Materials Research Facility at Princeton

The fundamental understanding of material response to a neutron and/or high heat flux environment can yield development of improved materials and operations with existing materials. A concept has been advanced to develop a facility for testing various materials under extreme heat and neutron exposur...

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Published in:Fusion science and technology 2011-08, Vol.60 (2), p.454-458
Main Authors: Cohen, A. B., Gentile, C.A., Tully, C. G., Austin, R., Calaprice, F., McDonald, K., Ascione, G., Baker, G., Davidson, R., Dudek, L., Grisham, L., Kugel, H., Pagdon, K., Stevenson, T., Woolley, R., Zwicker, A.
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Language:English
Subjects:
Beams (structural)
Chambers
Deuterium
Extreme environments
High vacuum
Reactors
Surface area
Tokamak devices
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Summary:The fundamental understanding of material response to a neutron and/or high heat flux environment can yield development of improved materials and operations with existing materials. A concept has been advanced to develop a facility for testing various materials under extreme heat and neutron exposure conditions at Princeton. The Extreme Environment Materials Research Facility comprises an environmentally controlled chamber (48 m^3) capable of high vacuum conditions, with extreme flux beams and probe beams accessing a central, large volume target. The facility will have the capability to expose large surface areas (1 m^2) to 14 MeV neutrons at a fluence in excess of 10^13 n/s. Depending on the operating mode. Additionally (deuterium) beam line power of 15-75 MW/m2 for durations of 1-15 seconds is planned. The facility will be housed in an existing test cell that previously held the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR).
ISSN:1536-1055
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DOI:10.13182/FST60-454