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NRC approves V.C. Summer’s second license renewal
Dominion Energy’s V.C. Summer nuclear power plant, in Jenkinsville, S.C., has been authorized to operate for 80 years, until August 2062, following the renewal of its operating license by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a second time.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 505-509
Fueling and Tritium Handling Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963662
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In the RFX reversed field pinch (RFP) frozen H and D pellets with mass ≤5·1020 atoms and speed ≤1.5 km/s are used for plasma fuelling. If a high speed pellet is launched with no plasma or is not completely ablated, the graphite first wall may be damaged by its impact. The paper presents the design of a protection system, based on real-time measurements of plasma current and density, developed to prevent incomplete pellet ablation.
