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Why should safeguards by design be a global effort?
Jeremy Whitlock
I can’t think of a more exciting time to be working in nuclear, with the diversity of advanced reactor development and increasing global support for nuclear in sustainable energy planning. But we can’t lose sight of the need to plan for efficient international safeguards at the same time.
Global nuclear deployment has been underpinned since 1970 by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), making it a key customer requirement for governments to demonstrate unequivocally that the technology is not being misused for weapons development.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has helped verify this commitment for more than 50 years, but it has never safeguarded many of the advanced reactors (and related fuel cycle processes) being developed today.
M. S. Tillack, X. R. Wang, D. Navaei, H. H. Toudeshki, A. F. Rowcliffe, F. Najmabadi, ARIES Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 1 | January 2015 | Pages 49-74
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-790
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ARIES-ACT1 is the latest in a series of tokamak power plant designs that capitalize on the high-temperature capabilities and attractive safety and environmental characteristics of SiC composites coupled with a self-cooled lead-lithium breeder. This combination offers both design simplicity and high performance, capable of operating at very high coolant outlet temperature in a moderately high-power-density device. Blankets are supported within a poloidally continuous He-cooled steel structural ring, which adds robustness and minimizes loads on the SiC modules. In order to withstand high local surface heat flux in the divertor (of the order of 14 MW/m2 time averaged), a helium-cooled tungsten-alloy divertor was adopted. About 25% of the total “high-grade” heat is thus removed by helium, to be combined with the blanket heat in order to feed the power cycle. In addition to the in-vessel power-producing elements of the design, this paper also summarizes the key features and analysis of the vacuum vessel and power conversion system.