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NWMO to select Canadian repository site this year
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization, a not-for-profit organization responsible for the long-term management of the country’s intermediate- and high-level radioactive waste, is set to select a site for a deep geologic repository by the end of the year.
Ji Qiang, Clifford E. Singer, Aaron Levinson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 31 | Number 3 | May 1997 | Pages 311-320
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST97-A30834
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A calibrated theory-based tokamak transport model is applied to International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) ignition studies. The reference simulation of basic ITER engineering design activity (EDA) parameters shows that a self-sustained thermonuclear burn can be achieved provided that impurity control makes radiative losses sufficiently small. The ignition probabilities of both ITER EDA and concept design activity parameters are investigated. These results suggest that a high-energy auxiliary heating power significantly <100 MW should heat ITER EDA to ignition.