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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
G. Raupp, O. Gruber, A. Kallenbach, V. Mertens, G. Neu, B. Streibl, W. Treutterer, Th. Zehetbauer, D. Zasche, the ASDEX Upgrade Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 32 | Number 3 | November 1997 | Pages 444-458
Technical Paper | Plasma Control Issues for Tokamaks | doi.org/10.13182/FST97-A7
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The Axially Symmetric Divertor Experiment (ASDEX) Upgrade's digital systems for plant operation and real-time discharge control are described. Experience gained during development and operation is used to derive the structure of a reference discharge control system that serves as a target system to assess the impact of enhancements in the existing system. Within this context, the extension of supervision control from technical synchronization of dedicated controllers to physics-oriented coordination is discussed, and examples of technical and physical applications are shown.
