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Flamanville-3 reaches full power
France’s state-owned electric utility EDF has announced that Flamanville-3—the country’s first EPR—reached full nuclear thermal power for the first time, generating 1,669 megawatts of gross electrical power. This major milestone is significant in terms of both this project and France’s broader nuclear sector.
J. Q. Dong1, E. Montalvo, R. Carrera, R. Khayrutdinov2, F. J. Helton3, M. N. Rosenbluth4
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1290-1295
Result of Large Experiment and Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29519
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Major disruptions are an important impediment to improve tokamak plasma performance and a critical design consideration of tokamak ignition devices. Ignited plasma disruptions are studied in the IGNITEX experiment. A two-phase (energy quench followed by current decay) disruption is phcnomenologically simulated and its effects on the conducting structures are analyzed. Various disruption conditions are studied. The effects of the single-turn TF magnet system are taken into account. The implications on the IGNITEX machine design are discussed.
