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Two steps forward for U.K. advanced nuclear
This week, two significant announcements have emerged from the United Kingdom’s advanced reactor sector.
On June 14, Rolls-Royce, the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory, and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency announced that they had signed two trilateral memorandums of cooperation to collaborate on “advanced modular reactor (AMR) technology, specifically high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR), and the coated particle fuel these reactors will use.”
Separately, on June 16, Bellevue, Wash.–based TerraPower announced that its Natrium reactor design has been formally submitted for U.K. regulatory review. The company also announced the formation of a new subsidiary, TerraPower UK Ltd.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1301-1305
Next-Generation Device | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39948
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A team of national laboratory, university, and industrial participants completed the preconceptual design for the Tokamak Fusion Core Experiment (TFCX), a long pulse, plasma ignition machine, and required support facilities. Functional and Operational Requirements (F&ORs) for the TFCX support facilities were developed as the basis for the preconceptual design, ensuring that adequate housing and site would be provided to support the tokamak machine and auxiliary systems. This paper presents partial F&ORs developed for the base case TFCX machine, the nominal superconducting option (liquid helium-cooled magnets), and describes the resulting preconceptual design.