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Diablo Canyon receives partial Civil Nuclear Credit payment
Pacific Gas and Electric has received a federal credit payment of $271 million from the Department of Energy under the DOE’s Civil Nuclear Credit (CNC) Program, which was set up in 2022 as a $6 billion federal strategic investment to help preserve the existing U.S. nuclear reactor fleet. The Award Cycle 1 funds just disbursed cover extended operations for Diablo Canyon-1, with the DOE noting that Unit 2 will become eligible for a CNC payment after completion of the 2025 award year audit.
Yuanzhe Zhao, Zhicheng Chen, Yu Gu, Wei Liu, Shihua Song, Qinglong Cui
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 82 | Number 6 | August 2026 | Pages 1237-1244
Regular Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2025.2526283
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this work, we propose and implement a high‐speed, multi‐mode control scheme for a neutral beam injection (NBI) system at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), encompassing open‐loop, proportional-integral-derivative (PID) feedback, and deep neural network (DNN)–based follow‐up modes. The system supports continuous, pulsed, ramp, and user‐defined waveforms and has been fully tested on a National Instruments (NI) PXI-7842 R field-programmable gate array (FPGA) under LabVIEW Real-Time (RT). With a real‐time control latency below 1 ms, it responds to a 1% (0.2 A) disturbance on a nominal 20-A beam current within 100 ms and maintains beam stability within ±5% over pulses longer than 10s. The DNN follow‐up control achieves a correlation coefficient above 0.95 between the four power supply outputs and beam power variations across 0.8 to 1.8 MW. The entire control system has now been deployed and commissioned on the EAST positive ion beam line. Future work includes extending the DNN’s valid power range beyond 1.8 MW, integrating edge computing hardware to reduce latency below 0.5 ms, and employing higher precision current sensors to shrink steady‐state error to within ±2%.