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General Atomics announces breeding blanket test facility
General Atomics announced it is developing design concepts in collaboration with the Department of Energy for the Fusion Blanket Component Test Facility (BCTF), which will test full-scale breeding blankets.
“No one has tested a fusion blanket at this scale. While there are more research and development challenges ahead, a BCTF brings us closer to turning fusion from proven science into practical, sustainable power,” said Anantha Krishnan, senior vice president of the General Atomics Energy Group.
R. B. Bennett, W. M. Stacey, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 4 | December 1984 | Pages 475-485
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A18366
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A theory for the effect of directed neutral beam injection (NBI) on impurity transport in tokamaks is extended to include temperature gradient effects. The extended theory is compared with experimental data from the Princeton Large Torus, and certain coefficients are adjusted to provide agreement. The adjusted theory is applied to assess the potential of NBI being used to prevent impurities from penetrating to the center of future tokamak plasmas, thereby possibly creating a cold radiating edge. The results indicate the possibility of creating a cold radiating edge in the tokamak fusion test reactor and in future tokamaks represented by the fusion engineering device and STARFIRE.