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NRC grants license for TRISO-X fuel manufacturing using HALEU
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted X-energy subsidiary TRISO-X a special nuclear material license for high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel fabrication. The license applies to TRISO-X’s first two planned commercial facilities, known as TX-1 and TX-2, for an initial 40-year period. The facilities are set to be the first new nuclear fuel fabrication plants licensed by the NRC in more than 50 years.
Rami Ahmad El-Nabulsi, Waranont Anukool
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 6 | August 2022 | Pages 449-467
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2045531
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The main aim of this paper is to discuss the influence of fractal dimensions on the behavior of the solutions of the Grad-Shafranov equation. Our study is based on the product-like fractal measure approach constructed by Li and Ostoja-Starzewski in their attempt to explore anisotropic fractal continuum media. The fractal Grad-Shafranov equation gives the possibility to analyze, in a toroidal fusion reactor, the plasma equilibrium in fractal dimensions. Examples of the exact equilibrium solution are given for both the vacuum case outside the plasma and the toroidally shaped spheromak. Note: PACS numbers 05.45.Df: Fractals; 28.52.−s: Fusion reactors; 52.30.Cv: Magnetohydrodynamics; and 52.55.Ip: Spheromaks.