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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.
M. Smith, J. Hennessey, T. Willard, D. Bishop, F. Simmonds, I. Kunsch, J. Sturges, A. Brooks, P. Titus, H. Zhang, W. Wang, C. Luttrell, J. Cook, J. Basinger
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 7 | November 2021 | Pages 575-581
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1897730
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New poloidal field (PF) coils and supports have been designed for the National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade (NSTX-U) Recovery project. The PF1A coil structural requirements demand a large preload to pre-compress the coil insulation. Coil support design accounts for all operational conditions and loads of NSTX-U including bakeout, seismic events, and electromagnetic loads. Background magnetic fields produce coil Lorentz forces that react on the structural supports. These Lorentz forces include interactions from the coil current and all plasma events: normal operations, disruptions, and vertical displacement events. This paper will detail the design and design loads and highlight some of the analyses.