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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
W. A. Cooper, J. P. Graves, T. M. Tran, R. Gruber, T. Yamaguchi, Y. Narushima, S. Okamura, S. Sakakibara, C. Suzuki, K. Y. Watanabe, H. Yamada, K. Yamazaki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 50 | Number 2 | August 2006 | Pages 245-257
Technical Paper | Stellarators | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1242
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The three-dimensional (3-D) VMEC code has been modified to model an energetic species with a variant of a Bi-Maxwellian distribution function that satisfies the constraint B[nabla][script F]h = 0, and the 3-D TERPSICHORE stability code has been extended to investigate the effects of pressure anisotropy in two limits. The lower limit is based on a purely fluid Kruskal-Oberman (KO) energy principle (ignoring the stabilizing kinetic integral), and the upper limit is obtained from an energy principle in which the hot particle pressure and current density refrain from interacting with the dynamics of the instability because their diamagnetic drift frequency is considered much larger than the dominant growth rate. We have specifically investigated the instability properties of a Heliotron device with a major radius of 3.9 m and total <> [approximately equal to] 3.9%, where the energetic particle contribution <h> varies from 0 to 1.3% for T