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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
T.D. Akhmetov, V.S. Belkin, E.D. Bender, V.I. Davydenko, G.I. Dimov, A.S. Donin, A.N. Dranichnikov, V.G. Igoshin, A.A. Kabantsev, Yu.V. Kovalenko, A.S. Krivenko, I.I. Morozov, V.B. Reva, V.Ya. Savkin, G.I. Shulzhenko, V.G. Sokolov, M.Yu. Stepanov, S.Yu. Taskaev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 94-98
Topical Review Lectures | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963831
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Investigation of the hot initial plasma created in an axisymmetric end system of the ambipolar trap AMBAL-M has been completed. In the end mirror we obtained the MHD stable plasma with the electron temperature of 50 eV, ion temperature 200 eV, and density about 1013 cm−3. In an MHD anchor – the semicusp a transverse profile of the plasma pressure favorable for the MHD stability was obtained. Pulsed injection of fast atoms with the current of 100 A demonstrated sufficient accumulation rate of the ion population trapped into the initial plasma. The first experiments with ICR-heating of the initial plasma were carried out.
Two atomic injectors of the end mirror were prepared for work. In these injectors four quasistationary proton beams were obtained with the energy of 25 keV and current of up to 50 A per beam. After their charge-exchange the atomic beams were passed through an MHD stabilizing shell and the target plasma.
Principal vacuum units of the 2-nd stage of the installation were tested and prepaired for assembly. One-half of the magnet-vacuum system of the AMBAL-M central solenoid was assembled and tested for vacuum.
