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Indiana Senate bill will have state consider SMRs
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A new bill in the Indiana state Senate creates guidelines for state regulators to consider small modular reactors should utilities want to build them. Senate Bill 271 was sponsored by Sen. Eric Koch (R., Bedford), chair of the Senate Utilities Committee, and Sen. Blake Doriot (R., Goshen). Supporters of the bill said that SMRs could replace retiring coal plants and would supplement renewables.
The Indy Star reported on January 24 that the utilities committee passed the bill by a vote of eight to two and that it now heads to the full Senate.
J. Irby, D. Gwinn, W. Beck, B. LaBombard, R. Granetz, R. Vieira
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 3 | April 2007 | Pages 460-475
Technical Paper | Alcator C-Mod Tokamak | dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1433
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
We describe some of the engineering solutions required to produce a diverted tokamak capable of operation with a toroidal field of 8 T and plasma currents of up to 2 MA. Some design details of the toroidal field magnet, the ohmic heating magnet, the metal plasma-facing components, the rf heating and current drive systems, and the power and liquid nitrogen cooling systems are discussed. Vacuum, vessel bake, boronization, and wall-cleaning systems are also discussed. Finally, disruption research results from Alcator C-Mod are presented.
