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NRC proposes security regulation changes
In 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14300, “‘Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,” which directs the NRC to conduct a sweeping, multifaceted overhaul of its structure, culture, and regulations with the aim of facilitating increased deployment of new nuclear technologies and capacity.
E. A. Vinitskiy, D. L. Ulasevich, A. S. Prishvitsyn, N. E. Efimov, R. R. Khayrutdinov, S. A. Krat
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 5 | July 2025 | Pages 485-494
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2431782
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A novel design of a continuous toroidal solenoid for the small spherical tokamak MEPhIST-0 is presented. The solenoid’s geometry is optimized in regard to stray magnetic fields perpendicular to the toroidal fields based on Maxwell’s equations and interface conditions for magnetic fields. The solutions obtained may in theory provide the level of stray fields ~10−10 of the toroidal fields. The design of the solenoid is tested by means of COMSOL modeling. The observed ratio of stray fields to the toroidal component of magnetic fields, Bp/BT is approximately ~0.4% at the plasma center. A ripple of the toroidal magnetic field at the edge of the plasma of δ ~ 0.8% is observed. The possibility of plasma breakdown with the chosen toroidal solenoid configuration was evaluated using the DINA calculation code.