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High temperature fission chambers engineered for AMR/SMR safety and performance
As the global energy landscape shifts towards safer, smaller, and more flexible nuclear power, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and Gen. IV* technologies are at the forefront of innovation. These advanced designs pose new challenges in size, efficiency, and operating environment that traditional instrumentation and control solutions aren’t always designed to handle.
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.
