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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
Huan Wu, Yuntao Song, Xufeng Liu, Shuangsong Du, Xiang Ji, Kaizhong Ding, Jinxiang Zheng, Sumei Liu, and Kun Lu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 65 | Number 3 | May 2014 | Pages 384-390
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-708
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A Central Solenoid (CS) conductor layout has been tentatively decided during the conceptual design phase of the Chinese Fusion Engineering Testing Reactor (CFETR). To check the validity of the conductor layout, stability analysis must be performed against the working condition of the conductors. We constructed a superconducting critical surface of the strands used in the CS conductors and then calculated the current sharing temperature of the conductors under the most stringent working condition envisioned with the operation parameters. We further analyzed the energy margin by simulating the quenching behavior with the GANDALF code upon disturbances of different durations and lengths representative of a mechanical disturbance and plasma disruption. The analysis results give preliminary estimation of conductor stability for further improvement of the design.