@article{88b3d90086bf4d04ab44a96aaabb8c4d,
title = "Analysis on the Preliminary Gap Conductance Test with Single Primary Heat Extraction and Removal Emulator",
author = "Minseop Song and Sellers, \{Zachary D.\} and Hartvigsen, \{Jeremy L.\} and Sunming Qin and Piyush Sabharwall",
note = "Funding Information: The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support by Microreactor Program (MRP) under U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy. Funding Information: Microreactor is a type of nuclear reactor that is intended to produce thermal energy from the micro and integrated design. Among various microreactor roadmaps, microreactor with heat pipes is one of the promising designs that under active development. At Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and supported by the Department of Energy (DOE) Microreactor Program (MRP), a Single Primary Heat Extraction and Removal Emulator (SPHERE) was developed [1,2]. The main purpose of SPHERE is to understand thermal performance of heat pipe in the conjunction of heat source without using nuclear material. The heat pipe used in the SPHERE has sodium as a working fluid, with Argon gas in the vapor region, thus this heat pipe is a Variable Conductance Heat Pipe (VCHP). The volume of noncondensable gas changes with power and elapsed time, so the area covered by non-condensable gas changes. This gives an effect that passively controls the cooling capability of condenser section.; 2022 Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting and Technology Expo, ANS 2022 ; Conference date: 13-11-2022 Through 17-11-2022",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.13182/T127-39809",
language = "English",
volume = "127",
pages = "1246--1248",
journal = "Transactions of the American Nuclear Society",
issn = "0003-018X",
publisher = "American Nuclear Society",
number = "1",
}