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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Frederick A. Haas, Anantanarayanan Thyagaraja
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 31 | Number 2 | March 1997 | Pages 159-168
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST97-A30818
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An important issue infusion power plant design involves the effect of sawteeth on power transients and ash removal. A model was previously presented for sawtooth oscillations in tokamaks based on a thermal instability mechanism mediated by turbulence in the q < 1 core. This model has been validated against current machines such as the Joint European Torus (JET) and the Tokamak Experiment for Technol.ogy-Oriented Research (TEXTOR). Here, it is adapted to include effects of alpha particle heating in a reacting plasma. The goal is to study the interaction between fusion reactions and the sawtooth turbulence dynamics. The alpha particle heating rate function is sensitive to temperature variations and could possibly result in a thermal instability mechanism for amplifying sawtooth temperature fluctuations under typical conditions. Taking International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)-like conditions as an example, calculations are performed to illustrate this generic behavior. These conditions suggest that while the sawteeth are effective in helium ash removal from the q < 1 region, they can produce significant spikes in the alpha power.
