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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.
Ren-Chu Chin, Shih-Hai Li
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 255-260
Technical Paper | Plasma Heating System | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A30329
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The physical constraints on the scaling law of global energy confinement time have been derived based on a set of weakly relativistic collisional/collisionless Maxwell-Vlasov equations. A total of 106 L-mode electron cyclotron heating (ECH) data were selected from the T-10 and DIII-D tokamaks. These data, through statistical regression analysis, were processed to obtain the scaling law. The resultant scaling becomes if the collisional physical constraint is imposed. The scaling passed the statistical test and was found to describe the database well. Hence, the weakly relativistic collisional model is suggested to be adequate to depict the ECH mechanism.
