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DOE OSTI2021

An 8 GeV Linac as the Booster Replacement in the Fermilab Power Upgrade

Increasing the Main Injector (MI) beam power above ~1.2 MW requires replacement of the 8 GeV Booster by a higher intensity alternative. In the Project X era, rapid-cycling synchrotron (RCS) and Linac solutions were considered for this purpose. In this paper, we consider the Linac version that produces 8 GeV H- beam for injection into the Recycler Ring(RR) or Main Injector (MI). The Linac takes ~1 GeV beam from the PIP-II Linac and accelerates it to ~2 GeV in a 650MHz SRF Linac, followed by a ~2-8 GeV pulsed Linac using 1300 MHz cryomodules. The Linac components incorporate recent improvements in SRF technology. The Linac configuration and beam dynamics requirements are presented. Injection options are discussed. Foil-based injection is the present standard but R&D toward implementing laser-assisted injection could enable a significant improvement. Research needed to implement the Booster replacement is described.

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DOE OSTI2022

Economic Extraction, Recovery and Upgrading of Rare Earth Elements from Coal-Based Resources (Final Report)

The overall objective of this project is to produce a rare earth elements product with greater than 8% rare earth elements from coal-based resources using an economically viable and environmentally benign processing methodology. The objective of the coal processing work will be to acquire appropriate coal feed and produce a viable clean coal product, a concentrated REE feed stream, and a pyrite stream (where available) that can be used to enhance leaching. The objective of the bio-oxidation portion of the project is to utilize bacteria to oxidize sulfide minerals and ferrous ions to ferric ions to accelerate leaching and remove the sulfides to prevent future acid mine drainage and related liabilities. The objective of the solution conditioning work is to remove iron and control leaching solution conditions to facilitate extraction of REEs without significant thorium extraction. The objective of the column leaching work is to engineer/model and simulate heap leaching to demonstrate low-cost extraction of REEs from coal-based resources. The objective of the solvent extraction work is to selectively extract and recover through controlled stripping of REEs that are solubilized through leaching. The objective of the precipitation portion of the project is to recover the REEs from the solvent extraction stripping solutions and dry them to achieve the final product of rare earth elements that is > 8 % REEs. The objective of the technical, economic, and environmental analysis is to determine the overall viability of the processing approach that is demonstrated in this project

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DOE OSTI2022

Upgrade of Core Conduction Cooldown Test Facility Control System

The CCCTF was designed and installed at ORNL in the 1990s for high-temperature gas-cooled reactor accident simulation. It is located within a modular hot cell housed in the IFEL facility. In 2008 and 2009, modifications were made to the CCCTF in preparation for AGR safety testing. A new airlock was designed and installed to better support periodic exchange of the fission product deposition cups while maintaining the fuel at safety test temperature, and modifications were made to add routines to the existing user interface software for computer-controlled automation of the He sweep gas flow and liquid nitrogen supply to the 85Kr cold traps. However, the furnace control hardware and software remained essentially unchanged. At the conclusion of the AGR-1 and AGR-2 PIE campaigns, continued use of the CCCTF was in question because of the gradual obsolescence of the hardware and software used to control the furnace and ancillary systems that make up the CCCTF. Therefore, an effort was undertaken to replace all the obsolete components with new hardware and update the software to increase system reliability and ensure this capability’s maintenance for future research and fuel qualification efforts. The modifications included creating a new National Instruments (NI) LabVIEW-based control system with a graphical user interface (GUI).

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DOE OSTI2022

Wall Upgrades for Energy Retrofits: A Techno-Economic Study

Homes built before 1992, when the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Building Energy Codes Program was established, represent approximately 68% of the residential building stock in the country. Up to 43% of these homes have little to no insulation in the walls and have very high air leakage rates of 10 or more air changes per hour at 50 pascals of pressure (ACH50). These issues can represent a substantial portion of unnecessary money spent on utility bills for homeowners, especially in the colder climates. There is a significant need for cost-effective, reliable retrofit methods for these homes that include air, moisture, and vapor controls which are considered best practices for high-performance new home construction. Well-tested and documented wall retrofit systems can help to achieve substantial energy savings and also improve durability, comfort, health, and resilience. In 2018, DOE’s Building Technologies Office awarded Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the University of Minnesota funding to complete a 3-year project to compare a range of residential wall retrofit systems that prioritized affordability, durability and energy savings potential. In addition to these core criteria, the ease-of-construction and the wide-scale applicability of the solutions also were considered. In this project, the research team identified, constructed, tested, simulated, and analyzed the feasibility and economics of 16 wall retrofit assemblies (14 test configurations and two baseline configurations).

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DOE OSTI2022

An 8 GeV Linac as the booster replacement in the Fermilab Power Upgrade [Slides]

Increasing the Fermilab Main Injector beam power available to the high-energy neutrino experiments above ~1.2 MW requires replacement of the 8 GeV Booster by a higher intensity alternative. Rapid-cycling synchrotron and Linac solutions were considered for this purpose. We consider the Linac version that produces 8 GeV H- beam for injection into the Recycler Ring or Main Injector. The new Linac takes ~1 GeV beam from the PIP-II Linac and accelerates it to ~8 GeV in SRF structures. The Linac components incorporate recent improvements in SRF technology.

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DOE OSTI2021

Upgrade of the Materials Analysis Particle Probe (MAPP-U) to decipher the impact of lithium-based surfaces on NSTX-U plasma behavior

Understanding the plasma wall interaction (PWI) remains a critical issue for the feasibility of thermonuclear magnetic fusion energy solutions. Key issues with PWI mechanisms in fusion tokamak reactors include: evolution of surface chemistry and its role on hydrogen retention. In particular how low-Z coatings such as lithium can impact the behavior of plasma at the edge and in the core. PMI (plasma-material interactions) are particularly important for strategies that involve low-recycling regimes and the use of lithium PFS (plasma-facing surfaces) to attain them, as in the case of NSTX-U. Recent reports have indicated the importance of access to the evolving plasma-facing surface during and in-between plasma discharges. Changes in surface chemistry and morphology due to ion bombardment and the difficulty of diagnosing plasma-facing surfaces, especially reactive surfaces, complicate the development of a predictive understanding of the wall and its interaction with the plasma. Consequently, this impairs the ability to design advanced PFC materials for future plasma-burning fusion reactors and appropriate PMI code validation. The Materials Analysis Particle Probe (MAPP) is an established and on-going PMI probe diagnostic system compatible with the highly chemically reactive system of lithium and boron coatings adopted by the NSTX-U research program. MAPP is the first PMI diagnostic to capture the surface physics and chemistry in-vacuo in a fusion tokamak system and correlate this data to controlled plasma shots. Currently MAPP captures this information at a fixed radial location at the NSTX-U outboard divertor region. The MAPP diagnostic has enabled understanding of the near-surface and surface chemistry of complex evolving lithiated and borated carbon-based PFC surfaces retention and transport of hydrogen. Coupled to atomistic simulations in collaboration with P. Krstic of Stony Brook U. MAPP has been very successful in achieving high-impact scientific research in its current grant period evidenced by two invited review articles and over 20 peer-reviewed manuscripts and over 40 contributed and invited presentations at both national and international conferences.

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DOE OSTI2021

Status of SNS Proton Power Upgrade SRF Cavities Production Qualification

The Pro­ton Power Up­grade pro­ject at Oak Ridge Na­tional Lab’s Spal­la­tion Neu­tron Source (SNS PPU) cur­rently being con­structed will dou­ble the pro­ton beam power from 1.4 to 2.8 MW by adding 7 ad­di­tional cry­omod­ules, each con­tains four six-cell high beta (\beta = 0.81) su­per­con­duct­ing radio fre­quency cav­i­ties. The cav­i­ties were built by Re­search In­stru­ments, Ger­many, with all the cav­ity pro­cess­ing done at the ven­dor site, in­clud­ing elec­trop­o­l­ish­ing as the final ac­tive chem­istry step. All 28 cav­i­ties needed for 7 cry­omod­ules were de­liv­ered to Jef­fer­son Lab, ready to be tested. The cryo­genic RF qual­i­fi­ca­tions and he­lium ves­sel weld­ing were done at Jef­fer­son Lab. The per­for­mance largely ex­ceed the re­quire­ments, and greatly ex­ceeded the per­for­mance of the orig­i­nal SNS cav­ity pro­duc­tion se­ries. Here, we pre­sent the sum­mary of RF test on pro­duc­tion cav­i­ties to this date.

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DOE OSTI2022

PUR-1 Water Processing and Cooling System Upgrade

The project objective was to purchase equipment related to the safety and operational capability of PUR-1. Following a 10x power uprate and the return to an active operational cycle, a water process system replacement is required to maintain the bulk coolant temperature within the bounds of the Technical Specification limit at the PUR-1. The replacement project will ensure safety and availability of the PUR-1 for long duration operational cycles and applicability to the largest possible customer base. The equipment to be purchased for this work includes a new main coolant pump rated to at least 30 gallons per minute, a heat exchanger to remove heat from the primary coolant, and a chiller system to release the heat to the environment via city water. The proposed system exactly replicates the installed system with a slight increase in capacity.

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DOE OSTI2020

US HL-LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project, Acceptance Criteria Part A: MQXFA Magnet

This document specifies the functional requirements for the MQXFA magnet readapted for the American contribution. If all the requirements specified in this document are met, then the U.S. HL-LHC AUP MQXFA deliverables will be accepted by CERN for the HL-LHC project. Another separate document will be issued by the American contribution for the MQXFA cold mass functional requirements. Please note that the definition of threshold as it is being used by the American contribution is not the same as objective, according to the HL-LHC quality policy.

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