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The Department of Defense has selected eight technology companies as being eligible to seek funding for developing microreactor technologies as part of the DOD’s Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations program. That program seeks to “design, license, build, and operate one or more microreactor nuclear power plants on military installations . . . to support global operations across land, air, sea, space, and cyberspace.” The selected companies are Antares Nuclear, BWXT Advanced Technologies, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, Kairos Power, Oklo, Radiant Industries, Westinghouse Government Services, and X-energy. Specific objectives of the DOD program are to “field a decentralized scalable microreactor system capable of producing enough electrical power to meet 100 percent of all critical loads” and to “utilize the civil regulatory pathways of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to stimulate commercial nuclear microreactor technology development and the associated supply chains in the U.S.”
Masami Ohnishi, Akio Ishida, Yasushi Yamamoto, Kiyoshi Yoshikawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 391-396
Compact Torus (Field-Reversed Configuration, Spheromak) Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947113
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The sustainment of a field-reversed configuration by means of a rotating magnetic field (RMF) is studied by the numerical simulation. It has been shown that the RMF applied externally on an FRC immediately after the production by a field-reversed theta pinch is penetrated into the plasma to drive a steady current, before the FRC fades out. There is a threshold value of the RMF which can maintain the FRC by the method. Since the RMF used in the present study is fairly large, we should optimize the parameters of the RMF to reduce the magnitude of the RMF required for sustaining the FRC. The method of applying the RMF to the FRC, however, may be effective for sustaining the hot and dense FRC in a steady state.