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Can hydrogen be the transportation fuel in an otherwise nuclear economy?
Let’s face it: The global economy should be powered primarily by nuclear power. And it probably will by the end of this century, with a still-significant assist from renewables and hydro. Once nuclear systems are dominant, the costs come down to where gas is now; and when carbon emissions are reduced to a small portion of their present state, it will become obvious that most other sources are only good in niche settings. I mean, why use small modular reactors to load-follow when they can just produce that power instead of buffering it?
M. Y. Isaev, V. M. Leonov, S. Y. Medvedev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 3 | April 2019 | Pages 218-225
Regular Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2018.1562315
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Properties of toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes (TAEs), driven by neutral beam injection (NBI) hot ions, are described for the tokamak T-15 under construction in the Kurchatov Institute to test a possible influence on the beam and plasma particle losses. The T-15 baseline scenario with a 10-s flat-top 2 MA current stage, 6-MW NBI plus 6 MW of electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) heating is computed with the ASTRA code. The spatial structure and the frequencies of different TAE modes with the toroidal indexes n = 2 to 8 have been obtained with the ideal magnetohydrodynamic KINX code. The bulk plasma Landau damping, linear growth rates, and nonlinear evolution of the TAE mode amplitudes driven by the NBI ions have been computed with the VENUS code. Our numerical estimations for the T-15 TAE modes are compared with experimental and theoretical results for the DIII-D and NSTX tokamaks.