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DOE announces awards for three university nuclear education outreach programs
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has announced more than $590,000 in funding awards to help three universities enhance their outreach in nuclear energy education. The awards, which are part of the DOE Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) University Reactor Sharing and Outreach Program, are primarily designed to provide students in K-12, vocational schools, and colleges with access to university research reactors in order to increase awareness of nuclear science, engineering, and technology and to foster early interest in nuclear energy-related careers.
Renjing Fan, Peng Fu, Jun Tao, Ge Gao, Liansheng Huang, Zhiquan Song, Jinchao Li, Yulong Ye
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 1 | January 2020 | Pages 21-28
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1610318
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The ITER poloidal field (PF) coil power supply system consists of 14 basic converter units that feed six superconducting coils. The converter unit is the complicated, challenging, and unique system to realize four-quadrant operation compatible with the superconductive load and the demand for plasma control. This paper describes the final design of the control strategies, which are implemented in the local controller of the PF converter system. They are zero crossing current control strategy in circulating operation mode, current balance control strategy in parallel operation mode, and hysteresis band control strategy in mode transition. In addition, the performance of the control system is demonstrated by the analysis, and the control strategies are validated by the simulations and corresponding tests.
