ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
Latest Magazine Issues
Aug 2026
Jan 2026
2026
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
October 2026
Nuclear Technology
September 2026
Fusion Science and Technology
August 2026
Latest News
Second round of Launch Pad selections includes eight newcomers
The National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory has announced 13 project selections across 12 companies for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, a Department of Energy–led program that integrates reactor and fuel facility authorization, testing, and deployment support for private nuclear developers.
The Launch Pad emerged from the Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program.
According to INL, projects selected include reactor development and nuclear fuel cycle advancements, including fabrication, enrichment, and conversion technologies.
S. Wang, Y. Q. Liu, X. M. Song, G. Y. Zheng, G. L. Xia, L. Li
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 73 | Number 4 | May 2018 | Pages 519-532
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1404416
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Systematic, multiple initial value simulations are performed for a toroidal plasma using the recently updated MARS-F code in order to understand how the resistive wall mode (RWM) can be feedback controlled in the presence of control coil voltage saturation and/or sensor noise. The former renders the control nonlinear, thus generally requiring initial value computations for toroidal plasmas. This numerical study complements and confirms the key results from a previously analytic investigation of the RWM feedback with power saturation for a cylindrical plasma [Li et al., Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 19, 012502 (2012)]. Moreover, simulation results reveal a linear trend between the maximum tolerable sensor noise level and the degree of relaxing the control coil voltage saturation requirement, up to a certain level of noise, corresponding to a noise-to-signal ratio of about 25%. Beyond this level, further relaxing the control voltage saturation limit does not lead to increased sensor noise tolerance for the RWM stabilization.