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Deep Isolation validates its disposal canister for TRISO spent fuel
Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation announced it has successfully completed Project PUCK, a government-funded initiative to demonstrate the feasibility and potential commercial readiness of its Universal Canister System (UCS) to manage TRISO spent nuclear fuel.
E. Mazzucato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 3 | April 2021 | Pages 173-179
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1858673
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
With the goal of reducing the radiation damage and radioactive waste that will occur in a tokamak reactor using the deuterium-tritium cycle, this paper proposes a new magnetic scheme capable of confining hot and dense deuterium–helium3 plasmas. It consists of two 200-m-long cylindrical plasmas connected by semicircular sections to form a racetrack configuration. The reactor should be capable of producing from 7.8 to 13 GW of fusion power when operating at electron densities of 2 × 1020 m−3, temperature 40 keV, and density ratios of the two reactants from 1:2 to 2:1.