D.L. Youchison, Sandia National Laboratories, PFC Meeting – ORNL 11-13Sept2013 DL Youchison & RE Nygren - Meeting at GA - 4december2013 Sandia National Laboratories is a multi program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. . Unique Features of High Heat Flux Testing with E-Beams for Aerospace Applications Richard Nygren & Dennis Youchison* Sandia National Laboratories *now at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sandia fusion activities - introduction - high heat flux testing equipment Research: issues and highlights from our experience testing and modeling - preference for e-beams as test platform - gas cooling - modeling of heat transfer - temperature measurement
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D.L. Youchison, Sandia National Laboratories, PFC Meeting – ORNL 11-13Sept2013
DL Youchison & RE Nygren - Meeting at GA - 4december2013
Sandia National Laboratories is a multi program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia
Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of
Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.
.
Unique Features of
High Heat Flux Testing with E-Beams for Aerospace Applications
Richard Nygren
& Dennis Youchison*
Sandia National Laboratories
*now at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sandia fusion activities - introduction
-high heat flux testing equipment
Research: issues and highlights from our experience testing and modeling
- preference for e-beams as test platform
- gas cooling
- modeling of heat transfer
- temperature measurement
D.L. Youchison, Sandia National Laboratories, PFC Meeting – ORNL 11-13Sept2013
DL Youchison & RE Nygren - Meeting at GA - 4december2013
HANDLE/HARVEST HEAT BREED/PROCESS/TRACK TRITIUM
BURNING PLASMA • Configure • Confine • Sustain
TRITIUM self-sufficiency
• Produce • Harvest • Contain
HEAT power handling
• Exhaust • Harvest • Convert
neutron damage
Basic requirements in fusion systems
and
PROTECT the PLASMA
ROBUST PLASMA FACING COMPONENTS
• Mitigate ion & radiation damage • Develop suitable materials • Develop workable cooling systems • Understand/predict system behavior including plasma-wall interactions
VIABLE BREEDING BLANKETs
• Demonstrated tritium breeding • Develop suitable materials • Viable integrated systems • Understand/predict system behavior including tritium migration/retention
D.L. Youchison, Sandia National Laboratories, PFC Meeting – ORNL 11-13Sept2013
DL Youchison & RE Nygren - Meeting at GA - 4december2013