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Securing the advanced reactor fleet
Physical protection accounts for a significant portion of a nuclear power plant’s operational costs. As the U.S. moves toward smaller and safer advanced reactors, similar protection strategies could prove cost prohibitive. For tomorrow’s small modular reactors and microreactors, security costs must remain appropriate to the size of the reactor for economical operation.
Vladimir V. Arsenin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 3-9
Invited Lectures | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963821
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Methods of MHD stabilization of axisymmetric systems are considered, including: average min-B (both in the case when the anchor is a cell with min-B and in the version when a stabilizer with average min-B is employed); use of nonparaxial effects; wall stabilization. The problems arising within different approaches are analyzed. Combinations of these methods seem to be attractive. Peculiar features of MHD stability in a long system with slightly rippled magnetic field are discussed.