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Deploying nuclear power: Financing, risk, and execution in the current market environment
Nielson
The renewed global interest in nuclear power is often framed as a policy story driven by decarbonization goals, energy security concerns, and surging electricity demand from digital infrastructure and electrification. While these forces are real and durable, they materially understate the challenge at hand. The practical constraint on nuclear deployment today is not strategic will, but execution. Specifically, the challenge lies in how nuclear projects are financed, how risk is allocated, and how investors assess credibility in a sector defined by long timelines and asymmetric downside risk.
T. D. Akhmetov, A. A. Ivanov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 94-99
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16880
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A magnetic divertor incorporated into a central solenoid of GDT is considered as an alternative MHD stabilizer for axisymmetric high- plasma. The divertor magnetic field structure can be produced by addition of several new coils to the present coil system in the region occupied by a hot-ion population. The important constraints on the divertor magnetic field are discussed. It must naturally fit into the GDT magnetic field and neutral beam geometry, should be adjustable to the plasma and allow for easy recovery of the standard operational regimes.