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Education and training to support Canadian nuclear workforce development
Along with several other nations, Canada has committed to net-zero emissions by 2050. Part of this plan is tripling nuclear generating capacity. As of 2025, the country has four operating nuclear generating stations with a total of 17 reactors, 16 of which are in the province of Ontario. The Independent Electricity System Operator has recommended that an additional 17,800 MWe of nuclear power be added to Ontario’s grid.
Wei Liu, Chundong Hu, Lizhen Liang, Sheng Liu, Shihua Song, Jinxin Wang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 1 | January 2019 | Pages 75-80
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2018.1471959
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Neutral beam injection is recognized as one of the most effective methods for plasma heating. According to the requirements for physics experiments of the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), two beamlines for neutral beam injection were built in 2014. In order to meet the diverse requirements of magnetic confinement experiments, recent attempts have been carried out for arc power control of a neutral beam injection ion source. A test system was added to the arc power control system. It provides a new method to smoothly change arc power during a discharge. According to the experimental results of controlling arc power, the fesibility of varying the arc power was verified in the duration of discharge. Meanwhile, the test system achieves the remote setting of arc power parameters.
