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X-energy forms partnership with Talen Energy to assess Xe-100 deployment
X-energy announced Thursday that it has signed a letter of intent with Talen Energy to assess the deployment of X-energy’s Xe-100 reactor in Pennsylvania and throughout the market area of the PJM Interconnection regional transmission organization. That area, where the companies intend to explore the deployment of at least three four-unit Xe-100 power plants, includes several states in the eastern United States, from New Jersey to Illinois.
Yuichi Ogawa, Jifang Wang, Takashi Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Inoue, Kunihiko Okano, Tsuneo Amano
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 432-435
Advanced Tokamak And Steady-State Sustainment Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947122
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A large - bootstrap - current tokamak plasma driven by the ohmic seed current has been studied for inductively-operated ultra-long-pulse tokamak fusion reactors. The safety factor profile with the negative magnetic shear has been demonstrated only by the combination of the ohmic and bootstrap currents, by adjusting the density profile, and the bootstrap current fraction more than 80 % is realized with the help of the increased q(0) value.