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Deep geologic repository progress—2025 Update
Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
Kurt Borrass, William R. Spears
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 1 | July 1988 | Pages 228-245
Technical Paper | Net Overview | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25161
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Scoping studies for the Next European Torus (NET) using the SUPERCOIL system code are described. Capital-cost-optimized devices satisfying constraints imposed on stresses/strains, fields, access, etc., are compared. The main objective is to determine the impact of design characteristics, performance objectives, and underlying plasma physics assumptions on the parameters and cost of NET. The background against which the main parameters of NET have been chosen is developed and illustrated by the NET study points used during the conceptual design phase. Supporting studies extrapolating NET design and physics assumptions to DEMO and power reactors are performed to allow the reactor relevance of the physics performance and testing program of NET to be justified.