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DOE on track to deliver high-burnup SNF to Idaho by 2027
The Department of Energy said it anticipated delivering a research cask of high-burnup spent nuclear fuel from Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia to Idaho National Laboratory by fall 2027. The planned shipment is part of the High Burnup Dry Storage Research Project being conducted by the DOE with the Electric Power Research Institute.
As preparations continue, the DOE said it is working closely with federal agencies as well as tribal and state governments along potential transportation routes to ensure safety, transparency, and readiness every step of the way.
Watch the DOE’s latest video outlining the project here.
T. Morisaki, S. Masuzaki, M. Kobayashi, R. Sakamoto, K. Tanaka, K. Narihara, H. Funaba, Y. Feng, F. Sardei, N. Ohyabu, A. Komori, O. Motojima, LHD Experimental Group, Y. Feng, F. Sardei
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 50 | Number 2 | August 2006 | Pages 216-221
Technical Paper | Stellarators | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1238
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Confinement improvement of ~20% from the ISS95 scaling law has been observed in the outwardly shifted configuration on the local island divertor (LID) experiment. In the configuration, highly peaked electron density profiles, together with peaked electron temperature profiles, are established with hydrogen pellet injection. A steep density gradient is formed in the internal region near the rational surface of q = 2 in the density decay phase after pellet injection. The plasma stored energy or central beta value increases and reaches its maximum as the density decreases, which is typical behavior of the reheat mode. Because of the increase in the central pressure, a large Shafranov shift is observed in the electron temperature and density profiles measured with a Thomson scattering system, suggesting the formation of the internal transport barrier during the LID discharge. Such better confinement has never been seen in inwardly shifted configurations. The reason for that is discussed taking the energy and particle transport into consideration. Recent results from a modeling study with the EMC3-EIRENE code are also presented.