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Bipartisan Fusion Energy Act pushes for regulatory clarity
Padilla
Sen. Alex Padilla (D., Calif.) introduced the Fusion Energy Act (S. 4151) last month with a bipartisan group of cosponsors—John Cornyn (R., Texas), Cory Booker (D., N.J.), Todd Young (R., Ind.), and Patty Murray (D., Wash.). The legislation would codify the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s regulatory authority over commercial fusion energy systems to streamline the creation of clear federal regulations that will support the development of commercial fusion power plants—and would require a report within one year on a study of risk- and performance-based, design-specific licensing frameworks for “mass-manufactured fusion machines.
“Congress must do everything in its power to ensure continued U.S. leadership in developing commercial fusion energy facilities,” said Padilla as he introduced the bill. “The Fusion Energy Act would provide regulatory certainty for investors as the NRC develops and streamlines frameworks for such facilities.”
Steve F. Horne, Martin Greenwald, Tom W. Fredian, Ian H. Hutchinson, Brian Louis Labombard, Josh Stillerman, Yuichi Takase, Stephen M. Wolfe, Thomas A. Casper, David N. Butner, William H. Meyer, Jeffrey M. Moller
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 32 | Number 1 | August 1997 | Pages 152-160
Technical Paper | Instrumentation and Control | doi.org/10.13182/FST97-A19886
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Operation of a tokamak from a remote site has been demonstrated for the first time. The Alcator C-Mod tokamak, located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was operated over the Internet from a remote control room set up at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Prescription of the physics parameters such as plasma current, density, shape, heating power, and active diagnostics was accomplished entirely from the remote site using the same interface as when operating from the C-Mod control room. Engineering control of subsystems (e.g., vacuum, cooling, and power supply limits) remained under local control, providing appropriate equipment and personnel security. Although the principal purpose for running this experiment from a distance was to demonstrate the remote operation, it was planned as a productive physics run. The operation was highly successful; important new physics data were obtained, and valuable insight was gained into the potential of remote operation as well as its limitations.