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Zaporizhzhia ‘extremely fragile’ relying on single off-site power line, IAEA warns
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant has just one remaining power line for essential nuclear safety and security functions, compared with its original 10 functional lines before the military conflict with Russia, warned Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Makoto Matsukawa, Shinichi Ishida, Akira Sakasai, Gen-Ichi Kurita, Yushi Miura, Tsunehisa Terakado, Yoshikazu Ohmori, Syunzo Ohmori, Jun Okano, Katsuhiro Shimada, Nobuyuki Hosogane
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 1106-1110
Plasma Engineering, Heating, and Current Drive | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963392
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The JT-60 facility is now planning to replace the existing machine with a superconducting machine (JT-60SC) in order to proceed with advanced studies of steady state plasmas with high performance core conditions close to those of fusion reactor. A maximum plasma current of 4 MA and duration of 100 s are expected. Existing toroidal and poloidal field coils and vacuum vessel will be completely replaced. Since the present JT-60 system has been designed for a plasma current duration of 15 s, the coil and power supply systems need to be reconstructed to ones with a long pulse capability. This paper describes the new JT-60 machine and the design of the coil power supply system.