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GLE gets incentives, draft EIS
The governments of Kentucky and McCracken County have granted preliminary approval to Global Laser Enrichment for a comprehensive incentive package to support the development of the North Carolina–based company’s planned Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility in the western part of the state. The performance-based incentive package would provide as much as $98.9 million in tax incentives and other economic incentives—provided that GLE reaches the required thresholds in investments and job creation.
In addition, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has completed a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) in response to GLE’s application to construct and operate the PLEF. Members of the public can submit comments on the draft EIS by May 11 for consideration by the NRC.
A. Listopad et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 274-276
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11633
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Currently a joint experimental program is performed on the RUDI injector at the TEXTOR tokamak in a collaboration between the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS and the Research Center Juelich (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH). The diagnostic injector RUDI is used for charge-exchange recombination spectroscopy (CXRS) diagnostic at the tokamak TEXTOR. Since the spatial resolution and CXRS signal level depend on diagnostic beam divergence and beam full-energy component current density, respectively, these beam parameters should be controlled to provide stable CXRS measurements. The beam density distribution, the angular divergence and the species composition, can be measured optically by spectroscopic means. The absence of perturbations to the beam investigated is one of the main advantages of optical diagnostics.