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Thea Energy releases preconceptual plans for Helios fusion power plant
Fusion technology company Thea Energy announced this week that it has completed the preconceptual design of its fusion power plant, called Helios. According to the company, Helios is “the first stellarator fusion power plant architecture that is realistic to build and operate with hardware that is available today, and that is tolerant to the rigors of manufacturing, construction, long-term operation, and maintenance of a commercial device.”
Akira Oikawa, Naoyuki Miya, Kozo Kodama, Takashi Umehara, Takeshi Yamazaki, Kei Masaki, Isamu Akiyama, Kozo Matsushita, Nobuyuki Hosogane
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 612-616
Device, Facility, and Operation | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22661
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Effluent of tritium in vacuum exhaust in JT-60 through the stack to environment always remains a level below detectable level (<10−5Bq/cm3 at the stack, <10−7Bq/cm3 at the site boundary). Though tritium concentration of drain water is below the limit of regulations of the local agreement and the law, small tritium contamination in the facility drain and in the rain drain of stack appeared occasionally. For a scheduled maintenance work of the in-vessel components, following an annual deuterium plasma discharge campaign, a 4-week no-deuterium (H or He) plasma discharge campaign and the succeeded ventilation by room air allow to reduce tritium on the interior surface of in-vessel components. This cleaning up shots and air introduction allowed workers to enter into the vacuum vessel. Air blow well tends to remove surface tritium elements and would be necessary before disassembly and replacement of components on vacuum pumping lines.