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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.
Aleksei Meshcheryakov, Irina Grishina
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 4 | May 2023 | Pages 476-487
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2174319
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
At the L-2M stellarator, in the electron cyclotron resonance heating regime, the processes of plasma self-organization were studied in different successive phases of plasma confinement during the facility shot. It is shown that in the phase of initial plasma heating, because of the absence of plasma-wall interaction, the canonical pressure profiles of the electronic component are not formed. In the quasi-stationary phase, the forming pressure profiles are close to the canonical one, and the energy loss is somewhat higher than in the phase beginning immediately after switching off the microwave heating pulse. After turning off the microwave pulse, the self-organization processes form the canonical pressure profiles of the electronic component in plasma, which ensure minimal energy loss from the plasma. In this case, the total power of energy losses from the plasma is proportional to the cube of the plasma energy.