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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.
Hong Gao, Zewen Shao, Muzhi Tan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 5 | July 2022 | Pages 414-419
Rapid Communication | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2026734
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Anomalous electron heat diffusion across high mode magnetic islands and the nonlocal high mode stochastic magnetic field are researched and compared with earlier low mode research work. The work in this paper uses two typical magnetic islands and a high mode stochastic magnetic field that are aroused by five incompact high mode perturbed magnetic islands. It is found that the mode number of the perturbed magnetic island is another key factor of anomalous electron heat diffusion across the minor radius in tokamak plasmas, besides the ratio of the parallel heat diffusion coefficient to the perpendicular coefficient and the width of diffusive layers.
