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“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
S. Murakami, H. Yamada, A. Wakasa, H. Inagaki, K. Tanaka, K. Narihara, S. Kubo, T. Shimozuma, H. Funaba, J. Miyazawa, S. Morita, K. Ida, S. Sakakibara, K. Y. Watanabe, M. Yokoyama, H. Maassberg, C. D. Beidler, LHD Experimental Group
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 1 | January 2007 | Pages 112-121
Technical Paper | Stellarators | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1292
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Electron heat transport in the low-collisonality electron cyclotron heating plasma is investigated to clarify the effect of neoclassical transport optimization on the thermal plasma transport in the Large Helical Device (LHD). Five configurations are realized by shifting the magnetic axis position in major radius: 3.45, 3.53, 3.6, 3.75, and 3.9 m. A clear effective helical ripple (which is a quantitative measure of the neoclassical transport optimization) dependency on the enhancement factor of the global energy confinement relative to ISS95 is observed. Local heat transport analyses show a higher electron temperature and a lower heat transport in the neoclassical transport optimized configuration at half the minor radius. The comparisons of the experimental total heat fluxes with that of the neoclassical transport by DCOM/NNW suggest that the neoclassical transport plays a significant role in the heat transport and that the neoclassical transport optimization is effective in improving the plasma confinement in the low-collisionality LHD plasma.