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Beyond Nuclear brings interim storage case back to Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court may once again scrutinize the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s authority to license consolidated interim storage facilities for commercial spent nuclear fuel. The antinuclear group Beyond Nuclear has filed a petition with the court for a writ of certiorari review of an August 2024 appeals court decision rejecting the group’s lawsuit against the licensing of Holtec International’s New Mexico storage facility, the HI-STORE CISF.
Han Zhang, Peter Titus
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 7 | November 2021 | Pages 687-691
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1912569
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
More and more, soft or hard magnetic materials have been used in the magnetic confinement fusion machine, like reduced-activation ferritic-martensitic steel, which may be used in the first wall and breeding blanket structural material of ITER. Twisted coils in the stellarator may be substituted by permanent magnets. ANSYS electromagnetic simulation has two methods: nodal-based formulation or edge-based formulation. Nodal-based formulation has been widely used in past years. This paper will present a modification to the nodal-based element SOLID97 in ANSYS to form the correct normal boundary condition to model ferromagnetic materials and compare the results, e.g., field, eddy current density, and Lorentz force, to edge-based methods using SOLID236.