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DOE opens pilot program to authorize test reactors outside national labs
Details of the plan to test new reactor concepts under the Department of Energy’s authority but outside national laboratory boundaries—first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released on May 23—were just released in a request for applications issued by the DOE.
Y. Kawamata et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | August 2011 | Pages 491-495
Plasma Engineering - Fueling and Diagnostics | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST60-491
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The JT-60 operations were stopped in 2008 in order to be upgraded to a superconducting tokamak device, JT-60 Super Advanced (JT-60SA). The design activity of JT-60SA is going on under the ITER-BA project, and the discussion on the operational scenarios of JT-60SA has begun. On the basis of these situations, we have been on a developmental work for JT-60SA control system.The JT-60 real time control system is composed of a workstation and a VME-based real time controller using a VxWorks. The VxWorks is one of the most commonly used real-time OSs in the embedded system markets. However, the introduction cost is higher than that of other RTOSs.From a cost-effectiveness and a long-term stable supply viewpoint, we have chosen INtime running on Windows OS-based Personal Computer. INtime is able to add a real-time performance to a PC on which Windows is installed. Therefore, in JT-60 real time control system, some of the subsystems running on VxWorks have been replaced with a PC-based control system. In future development activity, we plan to adopt the PC-based controller with INtime as the standard of JT-60SA control system. In this report, the developmental status of JT-60SA control system will be described.
