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Developing a new regulatory framework for advanced reactors: Update on Part 53
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The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) on March 29 held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series. The presenter, Patrick White with the Nuclear Innovation Alliance (NIA), talked about the current status of efforts to develop a new regulatory framework for advanced reactors—known as 10 CFR Part 53 or simply Part 53. White serves as the research director of the NIA, where he leads their research as well as analysis-based stakeholder and policymaker engagement and education. White’s March 29 presentation is publicly available on YouTube and at ANS’s publication platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research (NSTOR).
RP3C chair N. Prasad Kadambi opened the CoP with brief introductory remarks about the RP3C before he welcomed White as the session’s presenter.
White covered three main topics: the history of the existing regulatory frameworks for new reactors, progress to date on the development of the Part 53 rule for advanced reactors, and the current status and next steps for the Part 53 rulemaking process.
R. F. Gandy, M. A. Henderson, J. D. Hanson, S. F. Knowlton, T. A. Schneider, D. G. Swanson, J. R. Gary
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 2 | September 1990 | Pages 281-290
Technical Paper | Experimental Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29300
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Compact Auburn Torsatron (CAT) is a low-aspect ratio, continuous coil, toroidal magnetic fusion device. It has two main helical coils: an l = 2, m = 5 coil and an l = 1, m = 5 coil. The machine has a major radius of 53 cm, an average plasma radius of 11 cm, and a steady-state magnetic field of 1 kG. It was designed using an optimization scheme that employs the coil positions and coil winding laws as parameters. Once CAT is operational, the research program will focus on the study of magnetic flux surfaces and ion cyclotron heating. The choices and compromises encountered in building a low-aspect ratio torsatron are discussed.
