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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.
S. K. Ho, L. J. Perkins, S. W. Haney, R. B. Campbell
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1322-1326
Result of Large Experiment and Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29525
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Several emergency plasma shutdown schemes for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) have been analyzed. The development of these procedures is critical in order to demonstrate a reliable safety system to respond to accidents resulting from failures in burn control systems, plasma facing components, and thermal conversion facilities. The schemes considered include shutting off the heating and fueling systems, triggering an H-mode to L-mode transition, injecting impurities, and disabling vertical stability control systems. Most of these methods are based on active detection and intervention primarily because the power producing element (the plasma) is not in direct communication with the media undergoing the accident condition (the coolant and blanket material). Time dependent simulations indicate that emergency shutdown time without triggering a disruption from the above schemes is only marginally acceptable.