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South Korea looks to Southern and NuScale
This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
Max Chazalon, Jean-Louis Boutard, Michael Ian Budd, Antonino Cardella, Wolfgang Dänner, Paul Dinner, Dain Evans, Markus Iseli, Bernard Libin, Frans Moons, Jos Nihoul, Marc A. Vassiliadis, Gottfried Vieider, Chung Hsiung Wu, Ezio Zolti
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Technical Paper | Net Overview | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25153
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The Next European Torus (NET) in-vessel components consisting of first wall, divertor, and blanket/shield are subject to severe nuclear and thermal radiation. Their reliability and maintainability are crucial to the success of the NET mission. The requirements, options, preliminary design solution, and materials considerations for these components are described.