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Holtec hits milestones in Palisades restart, new reactor projects
Steam rises from the Palisades nuclear power plant. (Photo: Holtec International)
The restart of Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert, Mich., has hit a milestone with the passivation of its primary system, plant owner Holtec International announced Monday, even as a firm restart date has yet to be announced.
Passivation is a chemical process that improves corrosion resistance by making plant materials less reactive. During the process, the reactor’s primary system was brought to normal operating temperature and pressure. Holtec called this passivation phase an “essential step” in maintaining the long-term reliability of equipment.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 3 | April 2011 | Pages 602-616
Lecture | Fourth ITER International Summer School (IISS2010) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11700
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This lecture was given at the 4th ITER International Summer School in May 2010 to describe the broad research program on feedback control of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability performed by the reversed field pinch (RFP) community and its implication for magnetic confinement fusion. The lecture provides a bird's-eye view on RFP feedback control results obtained with active coils, and on their implications for ITER and tokamaks in general. A number of selected key examples are presented with the aim of highlighting the more innovative and broadly applicable results. RFPs provide a significant contribution to the effort of the broader fusion community on active control of MHD stability, and to fusion science in general.
