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X-energy receives federal tax credit for TRISO fuel facility
Advanced reactor company X-energy has been awarded $148.5 million in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Gianmaria De Tommasi, Raffaele Albanese, Giuseppe Ambrosino, Marco Ariola, Peter J. Lomas, Alfredo Pironti, Filippo Sartori, JET-EFDA Contributors
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 3 | April 2011 | Pages 486-498
Lecture | Fourth ITER International Summer School (IISS2010) | doi.org/10.13182/FST59-486
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The need to achieve increasingly better performance in present and future tokamak devices has made plasma control increasingly important in tokamak engineering. When high performance and robustness are required, it is essential to adopt a model-based approach to design a control system. We introduce the basics of plasma current, position, and shape control in tokamaks. As an example, the plasma magnetic control systems of the JET tokamak is presented, together with an approach proposed for plasma axisymmetric magnetic control at the ITER tokamak.