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NWMO to select Canadian repository site this year
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization, a not-for-profit organization responsible for the long-term management of the country’s intermediate- and high-level radioactive waste, is set to select a site for a deep geologic repository by the end of the year.
Weston M. Stacey
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 4 | May 2019 | Pages 245-250
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2018.1506626
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This paper combines the older neoclassical gyroviscous model for toroidal viscosity in the plasma core, which is based on an axisymmetric magnetic field and obtains reasonable agreement with experiment for toroidal rotation in the plasma core but not in edge plasma, with recent models for neoclassical toroidal viscosity (NTV) based on nonaxisymmetric “perturbation” magnetic field components present primarily in the edge plasma to obtain a composite toroidal viscosity model for toroidal velocity calculations in the tokamak core and edge plasma. This combination is facilitated by the fact that the same form of “drag frequency” representation of the viscous torque used in many of the new (NTV) torque models arising from toroidally nonaxisymmetric perturbation magnetic fields that are present mostly in the plasma edge can also be used to represent the old neoclassical toroidal viscous torques arising from toroidally axisymmetric magnetic fields.