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ANS webinar looks to the nuclear future of South Carolina
A recent webinar hosted by the American Nuclear Society featured leading experts in South Carolina’s nuclear sector, who discussed how the state will leverage its resources, history, and experience to become a frontrunner in new development. Hosted by ANS Executive Director/CEO Craig Piercy, it offered perspectives from the utility, commercial, and academic worlds.
A. Sykes, A. E. Costley, M. P. Gryaznevich, D. Kingham, J. Hugill, C. Windsor, P. Buxton, J. G. Morgan, B. Huang, G. Hammond, J. Fanthome, G. Smith, S. Ball, S. Chappell, Z. Melhem
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 2 | September 2015 | Pages 237-244
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-984
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The realization of power from Magnetic Confinement Fusion is presently following a plan that will span several decades. The mainstream route is via ITER, combined with, or followed by, materials development on a Fusion Neutron Science Facility, then a DEMO reactor, which, as presently visualised, is considerably larger than ITER. We consider smaller-scale alternatives and developments which may make more rapid progress towards the much needed goal of economic, safe, clean fusion power, but still based on the tokamak.