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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
P. C. de Vries, G. Pautasso, D. Humphreys, M. Lehnen, S. Maruyama, J. A. Snipes, A. Vergara, L. Zabeo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 69 | Number 2 | April 2016 | Pages 471-484
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST15-176
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To protect ITER from the high thermal and electromagnetic loads resulting from disruptions, prevention of such events is an essential part of the ITER plasma control system, backed up by an effective and reliable disruption mitigation system (DMS). An important aspect of the mitigation action is its trigger, the balanced decision that a disruption can no longer be prevented by scenario or stability control action and that mitigating action needs to be taken. This paper discusses the requirements for this decision process or trigger for the DMS, the expected timescales, the reliability and performance, and the possible strategy of how this may be developed for ITER high-performance operation.