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Air Force issues notice to partner with Oklo on microreactor deployment in Alaska
The U.S. Department of Air Force has announced its notice of intent to award advanced nuclear technology company Oklo a contract to pilot a microreactor at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 64 | Number 3 | September 2013 | Pages 407-416
Plenary II | Proceedings of the Twentieth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE-2012) (Part 2) Nashville, Tennessee, August 27-31, 2012 | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A19130
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The KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) pursued to develop key technologies for superconducting tokamak operation and to contribute to a few research items for ITER relevant issues. As a result, the KSTAR achieved highly confined mode (H-mode) in 2010 campaign and successfully demonstrated suppression of Edge Localized Mode (ELM) using n=1 Resonant Magnetic Perturbation (RMP) coils. The KSTAR is also initiating machine performance based on the designed machine parameters. The plasma current we achieved was 1 MA, and longest plasma pulse length has been extended to 10 s. In spite of limited heating power to 3.5 MW, several key actuators satisfactorily supported to implement a few scientific researches such as ELM control. On the basis of big progress in both the plasma performance and the experimental results, the KSTAR operation will explore key scientific and technical research issues under steady state operation condition in phase-2 operation.
