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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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As most attendees of this year’s ANS Annual Conference left breakfast in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Downtown Marriott to sit in on presentations covering everything from career pathways in fusion to recently digitized archival nuclear films, 40 of them made their way to the hotel’s fifth floor to take part in the second offering of Nuclear 101, a newly designed certification course that seeks to give professionals who are in or adjacent to the industry an in-depth understanding of the essentials of nuclear energy and engineering from some of the field’s leading experts.
W. K. Terry, Jeffrey N. Brooks, Charles D. Boley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 7 | Number 2 | March 1985 | Pages 158-170
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24531
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Several important issues related to impurity control in tokamak reactors were studied with a version of the plasma transport code WHIST. These issues are burn control feasibility by impurity injection and enhanced ripple transport, the effect on the plasma of limiter sputtered impurities, and the effect of operating with a self-pumped helium removal system. It was found that the plasma operating point and the mix between radiated power and power transported to the limiter can be controlled by varying the amount of impurities injected, the ripple transport, and the pumping fraction. It was also found that a self-pumped impurity control scheme that removes helium but not hydrogen results in acceptable plasma profiles. Finally, the effects of sputtered impurities depend greatly on whether or not neoclassical impurity transport is assumed, with the nonneoclassical case giving more favorable results.