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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
E. D. Gospodchikov, S. V. Golubev, O. B. Smolyakova, E. V. Suvorov, A. V. Vodopyanov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 223-225
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11616
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
New approach to realizing high plasma parameters in electron cyclotron resonance discharge supported by microwave radiation in axisymmetric magnetic trap has been proposed. This approach is based on using the inverted radial distribution of plasma density (with minimum at the trap axis). Such plasma density distributions allow efficient cyclotron heating and sustaining the steady-state discharge with high plasma density including densities above the critical value (corresponding to the density for which plasma frequency equals to the frequency of heating radiation). Simulations of power deposition for EC heating of plasma with overcritical density in axisymmetric mirror magnetic trap are presented, in which the effect of increasing the heating efficiency for inverted radial plasma density profiles has been demonstrated.