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Knoxville’s nuclear workshop opens with a full house and a long to-do list
The East Tennessee Economic Council’s Nuclear Opportunities Workshop opened yesterday morning at the Knoxville Convention Center, drawing registrants from around the country, and will close later today following a packed lineup of policy and industry leaders.
D. J. Strickler, Y-K. M. Peng, T. G. Brown, A. E. Dabiri, V. D. Lee, J. B. Miller
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1754-1759
Plasma Heating, Impurity Control, and Fueling | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40014
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System design studies were performed to assess the effect of assuming a poloidal divertor instead of a limiter as a means of impurity control for ignition tokamak configurations. Results show that for the nominal Tokamak Fusion Core Experiment (TFCX) device with superconducting TF coils, a feasible poloidal divertor configuration can be obtained without increasing the major radius. In the TFCX nominal copper TF coil device, however, field limits at the PF coils are exceeded when the effects of asymmetry associated with a poloidal divertor are included. It was found that a 12% increase in the major radius of this device is necessary to simultaneously satisfy the plasma-shaping requirements of a poloidal divertor and the magnetics constraints at the superconducting PF coils.