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South Korea looks to Southern and NuScale
This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
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
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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.