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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).
O.A. Anderson, W.S. Cooper, J.A. Finka, D.A. Goldberg, L. Ruby, L. Soroka, J. Tanabe
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 1418-1423
Magnet Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A23055
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We present designs for two negative-ion based neutral beam lines with reactor-level power output. Both beam lines make use of such technologically advanced features as high-current-density surface-conversion ion sources, transverse-field-focussing (TFF) acceleration and transport, and laser photodetachment. For the second of these designs, we also presented detailed beam and vacuum calculations, as well as a brief description of a proof-of-principle test system currently under development.