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Digital control system installed at China’s Linglong One
Earlier this month, the first digital control system was put in place at Linglong One, a small modular reactor demonstration project being built at the Changjiang nuclear power plant in Hainan Province. This is the world’s first land-based commercial SMR and is controlled by China National Nuclear Power Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC).
Akira Kohyama, Katsunori Abe, Akihiko Kimura, Takeo Muroga, Yutai Katoh, Tatsuo Shikama, Satoru Tanaka, Hideki Matsui, Kazunori Morishita
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 42 | Number 1 | July 2002 | Pages 62-74
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A213
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Materials research activities in Japan, as an important research area of fusion engineering, is briefly reviewed with emphasis on university activities. The activities cover major structural materials research and development on reduced-activation ferritic steels, vanadium alloys and SiC/SiC composite materials, functional ceramics, blanket materials, irradiation facilities and the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility, and theory and modeling for fusion materials research. These activities are not only for near-term materials issues but place stronger emphasis on the long-term issues to be solved by DEMO and power reactor time periods.