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The salient features of the use of lead and lead-bismuth in the power-generating loops removing heat from the blanket of a tokamak reactor are set forth. The results of experimental and theoretical investigations and analysis in substantiation of the use of heavy liquid-metal coolants in systems converting the energy of a blanket in a tokamak reactor into electricity are presented.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 98, No. 2, pp. 111–118, February, 2005.
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Beznosov, A.V., Pinaev, S.S. & Murav’ev, E.V. Application of lead and lead-bismuth in the heat-removal systems of tokamak reactors. At Energy 98, 103–109 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-005-0177-7
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