6.5 Nuclear environment

The injectors on a reactor will have to fit into the available space, and they will have to minimise their impact on the size of the nuclear island. The resulting space constraints will impact on the design and the layout options of the injectors and any attachments to the injectors, and the requirement that all maintenance must be carried out by remote means, with the consequent need for space around the injectors for the remote handling equipment, must be taken into account during the design of the injectors. An obvious conclusion is that in order to be considered for R&D funding, any proposal for R&D should consider the possible implications of the nuclear environment and propose conceptual solutions to those implications.

Research, Design, and Development Needed to Realise a Neutral Beam Injection System… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.88724
