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In an international industry, regulators cross the border too
Since nuclear physics works the same in Ontario as it does in Tennessee, the industry has been trying to create a reactor that can be deployed on both sides of the border. Now, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission have decided that some of their rulings can cross the border too.
S. Krat, A. Prishvitsyn, A. Alieva, N. Efimov, E. Vinitskiy, D. Ulasevich, A. Izarova, F. Podolyako, A. Belov, A. Meshcheryakov, J. Ongena, N. Kharchev, A. Chernenko, R. Khayrutdinov, V. Lukash, D. Sinelnikov, D. Bulgadaryan, I. Sorokin, K. Gubskiy, A. Kaziev, D. Kolodko, V. Tumarkin, A. Isakova, A. Grunin, L. Begrambekov, R. Voskoboinikov, A. Melnikov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 4 | May 2023 | Pages 446-464
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2149033
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An overview of the MEPhIST-0 educational and research small-scale spherical tokamak project is presented including the vacuum vessel, magnetic field systems, and diagnostics. In contrast to other small machines, it is an advanced tokamak with D-shaped plasma equipped with an electron-cyclotron resonance pre-ionization system for plasma startup and an ion-cyclotron resonance system for plasma heating and wall conditioning. The design choices taken are discussed from the perspective of a primarily educational installation. The machine design is simplified while remaining relevant to larger devices. First plasma results obtained in 2021 are presented.
