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Federal Power Act amendments focus on grid reliability
Fedorchak
North Dakota’s sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Republican freshman Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak, has introduced the Baseload Reliability Protection Act.
The bill aims to “amend the Federal Power Act to prohibit retirements of baseload electric generating units in any area that is served by a Regional Transmission Organization or an Independent System Operator and that the North American Electric Reliability Corporation [NERC] categorizes as at elevated risk or high risk of electricity supply shortfalls, and for other purposes.”
A summary of the legislation is available on Fedorchak’s House website.
Amendments: The Baseload Reliability Protection Act would amend the Federal Power Act in the following ways:
K. Ioki, C. H. Choi, E. Daly, S. Dani, J. Davis, B. Giraud, C. Hamlyn-Harris, G. Johnson, L. Jones, C. Jun, B. C. Kim, E. Kuzmin, R. Le Barbier, J-M. Martinez, H. Pathak, J. Preble, J. Reich, J. W. Sa, A. Terasawa, Yu. Utin, X. Wang, S. Wu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 61 | Number 2 | February 2012 | Pages 154-158
Technical Paper | First Joint ITER-IAEA Technical Meeting on Analysis of ITER Materials and Technologies | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A13382
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SS 316 L(N)-IG (ITER grade) has been selected as the main structural material for the ITER vacuum vessel (VV), considering its high mechanical strength at operating temperatures, water chemistry properties, excellent fabrication characteristics, and low cost relative to other candidates. The ITER VV is a class-2 box structure as defined in RCC-MR, 2007 edition, which was selected as the code for the design and construction. This paper describes materials, applied code and regulatory requirements, baseline fabrication procedures, and assembly on the site.
