Personnel Safety at Magnetic Fusion Experiments

The current fusion mission needs to demonstrate that fusion experiments and fusion power plants can be operated in a safe manner for the workers, local population, and environment. This paper describes some of the present issues and some solutions for personnel safety in magnetic fusion environments...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on plasma science 2019-01, Vol.47 (1), p.869-873
Main Author: Cadwallader, Lee C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chemicals
Electric power generation
Experiments
Exposure
Fusion
Ionizing radiation
magnetic
Magnetic devices
Magnetic fields
Magnetic noise
Magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic shielding
Nuclear power plants
Organic chemistry
Personnel
personnel safety
Power plants
Safety
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Summary:The current fusion mission needs to demonstrate that fusion experiments and fusion power plants can be operated in a safe manner for the workers, local population, and environment. This paper describes some of the present issues and some solutions for personnel safety in magnetic fusion environments. Ionizing radiation, magnetic field exposure, chemical exposure, and radio frequency energy exposure are addressed. The present personnel protection limits are given and historical bases are used to speculate on the future of personnel protection limits as fusion research advances from experiments to the fusion power plants in the next decades.
ISSN:0093-3813
1939-9375
DOI:10.1109/TPS.2018.2877357