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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.
T. Mutoh, K. Nagaoka, H. Takahashi, H. Kasahara, M. Osakabe, S. Kubo, T. Shimozuma, Y. Yoshimura, K. Tsumori, T. Seki, K. Saito, H. Igami, H. Nakano, K. Ikeda, M. Kisaki, R. Seki, S. Kamio, T. Ii, Y. Nakamura, Y. Takeiri, O. Kaneko, LHD Experiment Group
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 2 | September 2015 | Pages 216-224
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST15-120
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Recent advances in the high power and steady state heating system and experiment results of the Large Helical Device (LHD) are reviewed in this paper. Plasma performance is extended largely through high power NBI, ECH and steady state ICRF heating devices, and improved operation techniques. The NBI of a 28 MW has extended the plasma parameter regime such as ion ITB plasmas, has a central ion temperature of more than 8 keV, and the extremely high-density plasmas ten times higher than the tokamak limit. An ECH system with seven gyrotrons (total power of 4.6MW) has been operated for pre-ionization and plasma heating. The high electron temperature regime was extended toward a higher density regime and a central electron temperature of 13.5 keV was achieved with a line-averaged electron density of ne = 1 x 1019 m-3. Steady state operation plasma with ne = 1.2 x 1019 m-3, ion and electron temperature of 2 keV, and plasma sustainment time of 48 min was achieved with ICH and ECH heating power of 1.2 MW for majority helium with minority hydrogen.