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Deep Fission to break ground this week
With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project on December 9 in Parsons, Kansas. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months.
Weigang Hui, Bassam A. Bamieh, George H. Miley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 25 | Number 3 | May 1994 | Pages 318-325
Technical Paper | Alpha-Particle Special / Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A30287
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An integrated zero-dimensional plasma-control code, ASH, has been developed and employed to study the possibility of controlling the burn condition of a fusion reactor of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor type by modulating the refueling rate. A constant-gain proportional feedback controller is synthesized; the values of feedback gains are obtained by either pole placement or an design. Compared with the use of modulated auxiliary heating alone, modulation of the refueling rate can provide important additional leverage in tokamak burn control. A key feature of this system is the incorporation of robust control theory to allow for modeling uncertainties.