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Second round of Launch Pad selections includes eight newcomers
The National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory has announced 13 project selections across 12 companies for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, a Department of Energy–led program that integrates reactor and fuel facility authorization, testing, and deployment support for private nuclear developers.
The Launch Pad emerged from the Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program.
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M. Matsukawa, H. Ninomiya, H. Horiike, N. Hosogane, R. Yoshino
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1624-1629
Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29952
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This paper describes the design modifications to the plasma feedback control system, including power supply, for the Upgrade of JT-60. One of the major design issues was to be able to change the kind of control command for the thyristor converter from voltage to current and vice versa at any time during the discharge. Another one was to adopt a faster control system with 250µs response for stabilization of plasma vertical position, even in plasmas with high elongation of 1.8. These modifications improved the plasma controllability especially at initiation and made protecting the poloidal field coil system easier when the plasma disrupts. The high flexibility of the control system led to the achievement of a 4MA plasma after only 2 weeks of JT-60U operation.