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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.
S. M. Hwang, G. S. Lee, J. G. Yang, K. K. Choh, J. H. Choi, J. W. Choi, K. S. Chung, C. J. Dhoh, J. Hong, B. C. Kim, D. E. Kim, W. C. Kim, H. K. Lee, S. G. Lee, H. K. Na, Y. K. Oh, H. L. Yang, S. J. Yoo, N. S. Yoon, K.-I. You, Duk-In Choi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 99-106
Topical Review Lectures | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963832
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The Hanbit magnetic mirror device, which is operated as a joint plasma research facility, has been constructed at Korea Basic Science Institute for basic study and technology development of high temperature plasma confinement, plasma heating and diagnostics, and plasma applications, such as high-temperature material testing for tokamak divertors. A 500-kW RF transmitter and a 100-kW RF transmitter for ICRF heating are major heating sources in operation, and a few gyrotron-based ECRH systems are in preparation. The target plasma parameters at the central cell are 1-keV ion temperature, 200-eV electron temperature, and 5 × 1012 cm−3 electron density with 500-ms plasma duration. The present status of the Hanbit device, which includes the system overview and recent experimental result, is described in this paper, and future plans will be discussed.