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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
G. Van Oost, V. P. Bhatnagar, T. Delvigne, P. Descamps, F. Durodié, R. Koch, A. M. Messiaen, D. I. C. Pearson, P. E. Vandenplas, A. Vanderstraeten, R. Van Nieuwenhove, G. Van Wassenhove, R. R. Weynants, W. Kohlhaas, C. Stickelmann, A. Cosler, B. Giesen, B. Goerg, S. Haltrich, P. Huettemann, M. Korten
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 12 | Number 3 | November 1987 | Pages 449-475
Technical Paper | Plasma Heating System | doi.org/10.13182/FST87-A25078
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A multimegajoule ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) experiment was installed on the Torus Experiment for Technology-Oriented Research (TEXTOR) tokamak. The system consists of two independent power lines each designed to generate and launch 1.5 MW of radio-frequency (rf) power into the machine during a 3-s period in the 25- to 29-MHz frequency range. Each power line consists of the following items: (a) a 1.5-MW transmitter, (b) a transmission line system, including a two-stub tuner, made of pressurized 155.6-mm (6.125-in.) and 228.6-mm (9-in.) rigid coaxial line components, and (c) an interface linking the transmission line to the antenna of the shielded stripline type placed along the tokamak's hot liner. Details of the line and antenna diagnostics and data acquisition system together with the subsequent impedance characteristic calculations are given. The rf radiation shielding for the ICRH experiment is explained. The control of the rf setup as a TEXTOR subsystem and the generator pulse control and operation modes are outlined. The antenna loading and power limitation in the presence of plasma and the conditioning procedure are discussed. Finally, the new rf system compatible with the toroidal pump limiter Advanced Limiter Test-II is presented.
