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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.
R.D. Pillsbury, Jr., J.H. Schultz, R.J. Thome
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 504-507
The Compact Ignition Tokamak Program | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24796
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Preliminary designs for the poloidal field coil system for several alternative concepts for the Ignition Studies Project have been analyzed. Options include both a limiter and divertor configuration with PF coils located internal to the TF coil, external to the TF coil, and a mixture of internal and external (hybrid) coils. The effect on the system parameters of ampere-meters, stored and dissipated energy, and peak requirements are reported. The all internal coil configuration for the diverted plasma has significantly lower amperemeters, energy, and power requirements. However, internal coils are disadvantageous from the remote maintenance standpoint.