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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.
Carlos Alejaldre, Jose Javier Alonso Gozalo, Jose Botija Perez, Francisco Castejón Magaña, Jose Ramon Cepero Diaz, Jose Guasp Perez, A. Lopez-Fraguas, Luis García, Vladimir I. Krivenski, R. Martín, A. P. Navarro, Angel Perea, Antonio Rodriguez-Yunta, Mario Sorolla Ayza, Antonio Varias
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 17 | Number 1 | January 1990 | Pages 131-139
Technical Paper | Stellarator System | doi.org/10.13182/FST17-131-139
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The TJ-II device is a medium-size (R0 = 1.5 m, 〈ap〉 = 0.2 to 0.25 m, B0 = 1 T) helical-axis stellarator to be built at the CIEMAT site in Madrid. Its main characteristics are (a) potential for high-beta operation; (b) flexibility, i.e., its rotational transform can be varied over a wide range and its shear to some extent; and (c) bean-shaped plasma cross section. The latest understanding of TJ-II physics in the fields of electron cyclotron resonance heating, transport, and magnetohydrodynamics, and the engineering solutions introduced in its final design are discussed.