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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.
R. A. Vesey
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1630-1634
Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29953
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The fluid equations modeling plasma transport in the tokamak scrape-off region are discretized via optimal upwind finite element methods developed for convection-dominated problems. These methods allow the non-orthogonal geometry of the edge region to be represented accurately, while applying the necessary boundary conditions. Newton's method with mesh sequencing is used to arrive at a converged solution to the resulting nonlinear algebraic system of equations. Preliminary results are presented for a 20x20 finite element discretization of the ASDEX edge region, with some simplifications. General agreement between the finite element solution and the Braams code B2 is observed. The code will be extended to allow equilibrium-based meshes and arbitrary boundary geometries.
