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G7 pledges support for nuclear at Italy meeting
The Group of Seven (G7) recommitted its support for nuclear energy in the countries that opt to use it at a Ministerial Meeting on Climate in Italy last month.
In a statement following the April meeting, the group committed to support multilateral efforts to strengthen the resilience of nuclear supply chains, referencing the goal set by 25 countries during last year’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai to triple global nuclear generating capacity by 2050.
Le Tang, Hong Ran, Lijun Cai, Yuncong Huang, Jilai Hou, Binbin Song
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 3 | April 2022 | Pages 199-210
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1978742
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The vacuum vessel (VV) of the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) performs many functions, but its main function is to provide a high-quality, ultra-high-vacuum environment for plasma operation. The electromagnetic load acts on the VV and its ports during a plasma vertical displacement event (VDE). This paper adopts a new simulation method of the plasma current during transient electromagnetic analysis. The distribution of the electromagnetic load on the VV shells, the upper ports, the equatorial ports, and the lower ports is entirely displayed. The structural stress under the electromagnetic load during a VDE was obtained by electromagnetic-structural coupling. According to the structural analysis, the results indicate that the VV can meet the structural strength and stiffness requirement.