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Diablo Canyon gets key state approval
Pacific Gas & Electric has announced that the California Coastal Commission, the state agency in charge of protecting California’s roughly 840 miles of coastline, unanimously voted to approve the Act Consistency Certification and Coastal Development Permit for Diablo Canyon, a critical step in the utility’s work to extend the life of the nuclear power plant.
Working Group on KARIN-I
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1596-1605
Alternative Concept | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39988
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A 650 MWe D-T fusion reactor “KARIN-I” possesses 10 moving ring plasmas which are produced by relativistic electron beam (REB) injection, heated by a major radius compression and transported in a linear cylindrical burning chamber by annularly flowing liquid lithium outside the SiC first wall. The liquid lithium not only stabilizes the tilting motion of the ring plasmas but also works as a tritium breeder and main coolant. Energy of burnt plasmas is efficiently recovered by the major radius expansion. The linear alignment of reactor components ensures easy assembly and disassembly, and also provides simple maintainability of the system.