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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
T. D. Akhmetov, A. A. Ivanov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 94-99
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16880
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A magnetic divertor incorporated into a central solenoid of GDT is considered as an alternative MHD stabilizer for axisymmetric high- plasma. The divertor magnetic field structure can be produced by addition of several new coils to the present coil system in the region occupied by a hot-ion population. The important constraints on the divertor magnetic field are discussed. It must naturally fit into the GDT magnetic field and neutral beam geometry, should be adjustable to the plasma and allow for easy recovery of the standard operational regimes.
