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Argonne opens registration for D&D training course
Registration is open for Argonne National Laboratory’s Facility Decommissioning Training Course, a four-day instruction designed for those responsible for the decontamination and decommissioning of nuclear facilities and who are looking to understand the full breadth and depth of the D&D processes.
The next session will be held July 16–19 in Santa Fe, N.M. Information on the course and how to register can be found here.
S.G.E. Pronko, S. Delaware, T.E. Harris, D. Hoyt, D.H. Kellman, R.A. Legg, M. Lontoc, A. Nerem, J.R. Valentine
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 1111-1115
Plasma Engineering, Heating, and Current Drive | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963393
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The DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics is completing the upgrade of its electron cyclotron heating (ECH) capability from the previous 3 MW at 110 GHz to 6 MW of generated microwave power.1 An 8.4 MW modulator/regulator (M/R) power system has been designed and constructed.2 Surplus hardware that was acquired from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF program) was used as part of the design foundation. The power system, with a nominal output of −80 kV and 80 A, can supply a pair of gyrotrons with up to 10 second long pulses that may or may not be modulated.
The modulator/regulator was designed about the BBC CKQ200-4 tetrode, which was the key component acquired from the LLNL program. In order to meet the performance goals of the program, substantial design modifications were needed to be made on the grid driver amplifier and the closed-loop feedback regulator circuits.3 Also, a newly designed crowbar switch system, featuring a high speed, thyratron-like triggered gas switch, was implemented. The modulator/regulator performance to date has been demonstrated as having <0.06% peak-to-peak ripple and square wave modulation of 50% amplitude at 2 kHz. The key features of the design of the power system and its performance will be presented in this paper.
