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Zaporizhzhia ‘extremely fragile’ relying on single off-site power line, IAEA warns
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant has just one remaining power line for essential nuclear safety and security functions, compared with its original 10 functional lines before the military conflict with Russia, warned Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
M. E. Fenstermacher, R. S. Devoto, R. H. Bulmer, J. D. Lee, J. R. Miller, J. H. Schultz
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 740-745
Plasma Heating and Current Drive-I | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39784
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The physics and engineering guidelines for the ITER device are shown to lead to viable physics operating points for a steady state tokamak power reactor. Non-inductive current drive is provided in steady state by high energy neutral beam injection in the plasma core, lower hybrid slow waves in the outer regions of the plasma and bootstrap current. Plasma gain Q (≡ fusion power/input power) in excess of 20 and average neutron wall loading, <Γ> ≈2.0 MW/m2 are predicted in a device with major radius, R0 = 7.5 m and minor radius, a = 2.8 m.