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Heat Pipe Cooled Microreactors

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/2337608· OSTI ID:2337608
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  1. Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States)
  2. Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
  3. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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Microreactor technologies are required to provide reliable carbon-free power generation in remote applications. The heat pipe cooled microreactor concept in particular offers notable advantages due to the passive operation of heat pipes enabling increased reliability and simplicity in a more compact form factor. There is a significant need for experimental work to aid and expedite the deployment of heat pipe microreactors due to their unique technological characteristics. Thus, there has been increased interest in heat pipe experiments by numerous institutions in order to support these efforts. The present work is a comprehensive review of heat pipe experiments, describing instrumentation, methods, phenomena of interest, and recent developments. In addition, legacy work on the operation of high-temperature heat pipes under irradiation is reviewed and discussed. Furthermore, the verification and validation efforts for the flagship heat pipe simulation code Sockeye are reviewed and requirements for future experiments are outlined. Lastly, future directions are proposed for heat pipe experimentation.
Research Organization:
Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC07-05ID14517
OSTI ID:
2337608
Report Number(s):
INL/RPT--24-76428-Rev000
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
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