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Siting of Canadian repository gets support of tribal nation
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announced that Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation has indicated its willingness to support moving forward to the next phase of the site selection process to host a deep geological repository for Canada’s spent nuclear fuel.
Deqaun Liu, Tao Lin, Tao Qiao, Lijun Cai, Chengzhi Cao, Yinglong Yuan, Qiang Li
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 2 | February 2023 | Pages 179-188
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2105634
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The HL-2M tokamak was constructed at Southwestern Institute of Physics. The support system is one of the main subsystems of the device. The magnetic coils and vacuum vessel are located and integrated by the support system. According to its function, the support system is divided into gravity support, support for poloidal field coils, and anti-torque structure for toroidal field coils. The structure design and the finite element analysis of the support system is introduced in this paper.
