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WIPP: Lessons in transportation safety
As part of a future consent-based approach by the federal government to site new deep geologic repositories for nuclear waste, local communities and states that are considering hosting such facilities are sure to have many questions. Currently, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is the only example of such a repository in operation, and it offers the opportunity for state and local officials to visit and judge for themselves the risks and benefits of hosting a similar facility. But its history can also provide lessons for these officials, particularly the political process leading up to the opening of WIPP, the safety of WIPP operations and transportation of waste from generator facilities to the site, and the economic impacts the project has had on the local area of Carlsbad, as well as the rest of the state of New Mexico.
Haihong Huang, Ruifeng Wu, Zhao Chen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 7 | October 2025 | Pages 717-729
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2025.2488704
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The tokamak magnet power supply (TMPS) is an important device for achieving plasma displacement balance control (PDBC) in nuclear fusion, but practical application of nuclear fusion is seriously affected by the continuous increasing demand of TMPS capacity. In order to reduce power capacity and realize capacity optimization of TMPS, grey prediction is used to predict the plasma vertical displacement (PVD) signal, and the TMPS reference signal is obtained in advance based on the predicted PVD value. When a small PVD error occurs, only a small current is needed from TMPS to control the displaced plasma back to the equilibrium position. To further improve the accuracy of the PVD prediction, old information in the original sequence of the grey prediction is transformed and weakened to enhance the weight of new information. A simplified Simpson formula is used to reconstruct background value to improve the prediction accuracy of the grey prediction model. The PVD predicted value error is repeatedly checked to ensure grey prediction model prediction accuracy, and when the PVD prediction error is accepted, the PVD prediction of the next moment is carried out. The PDBC model is established, and a reference signal obtained in advance is provided to TMPS to ensure the TMPS output current tracking reference signal, achieving excitation of the load coil to realize PDBC. After analysis and verification, PVD prediction is effectively achieved by improved grey prediction, and in the process of achieving PDBC, compared with TMPS actual engineering capacity, the designed TMPS capacity optimization method can significantly reduce the maximum output current and terminal voltage of TMPS, achieving TMPS capacity optimization.