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Oregon bill would create new feasibility study
Historical photo of Trojan nuclear power plant, ca. 1974. (Photo: DOE)
As concerns over growing energy needs persist, yet another state is reconsidering nuclear power. A piece of legislation is currently progressing through Oregon’s legislature that would direct the Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE) to conduct a study to assess the feasibility of deploying new power reactors in the state.
Yuanyang Chen, Xiaohua Bao, Ge Gao, Yizhui Tang, Yong Yang, Sheng Liu, Min Wang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 6 | August 2021 | Pages 469-476
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1930824
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
To design the alternating current operation of the J-text tokamak, this paper studies the plasma equilibrium during the plasma toroidal current reversing. First, four alternative current reversal equilibrium configurations with circular cross section when the total toroidal current becomes zero were constructed. Then, the profile of the plasma current was used as the input of a fixed boundary equilibrium solver to calculate the poloidal field coil currents. According to the results, the relationship between the plasma current distribution and currents in ohmic heating coils and vertical field coils is discussed. Finally, the plasma equlibrium of a toroidal current reversal with total plasma current from 40 kA to –40 kA in 40 ms was designed.