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The past few years have seen a concerted effort from many U.S. states to encourage nuclear development. The momentum behind nuclear-friendly policies has grown considerably, with many states repealing moratoriums, courting nuclear developers and suppliers, and in some cases creating advisory groups and road maps to push deployment of new nuclear reactors.
Manfred Wanner, Konrad Risse, and Thomas Rummel
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 65 | Number 3 | May 2014 | Pages 391-398
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-712
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The superconducting coils of the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator use a cable-in-conduit conductor that is wound as double layers. These double layers are connected by low-ohmic joints to limit ohmic heating. All joints were equipped with voltage taps to allow identification of the double layer causing a quench. During the current tests of the superconducting coils, the differences between adjacent voltage taps were measured, and the joint resistances between the double layers were estimated. The cryogenic tests of the 50 nonplanar and 20 planar coils provided a unique opportunity to analyze the variation of the resistance of 250 joints of the nonplanar coils and of 40 joints of the planar coils. The statistical analysis shows that the resistance of most of the joints was well below the specified value of 1 nΩ.