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Panelists discuss U.S. path to criticality in ANS webinar
The American Nuclear Society recently hosted a panel discussion featuring prominent figures from the nuclear sector who discussed the industry’s ongoing push for criticality.
Yasir Arafat, chief technical officer of Aalo Atomics; Jordan Bramble, CEO of Antares Nuclear; and Rita Baranwal, chief nuclear officer of Radiant Industries, participated in the discussion and covered their recent progress in the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program. Nader Satvat, director of nuclear systems design at Kairos Power, gave an update on the company’s ongoing demonstration projects taking place outside of the landscape of DOE authorization.
Koichi Maki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 1 | July 1986 | Pages 70-77
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24747
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The possibility of burn control by hydrogen feeding was investigated for tokamak plasma under a self-sustained condition. When fusion power shifts higher than a target value, increases in hydrogen feed rate can lower the power by a reduction in ion temperature due to enhanced hydrogen density. Conversely, when the power shifts lower than the target, stopping hydrogen feeding and exhaust can increase the power through an increase in ion temperature due to reduced hydrogen density. Especially in the latter, in order to enlarge the recoverable magnitude of power shift, it is necessary to select a self-sustained condition having the highest hydrogen density. The results confirmed the possibility of burn control by hydrogen feeding.