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NWTRB to hold public meeting on SNF disposal and corrosion
The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, an independent federal agency that evaluates the Department of Energy’s efforts to manage and dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, will hold a two-day public meeting May 21–22 to review information on the DOE’s research and development activities related to the disposal of SNF and HLW in crystalline host rocks and on the corrosion of commercial SNF after disposal.
C. S. Chang, Kaya Imre, Harold Weitzner, P. Colestock
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 4 | December 1990 | Pages 618-624
Alpha Particles in Fusion Research | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29254
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Control of radial alpha-particle transport by using ion cyclotron range of frequency (ICRF) waves is investigated in a large-aspect-ratio tokamak geometry. Spatially inhomogeneous ICRF wave energy with properly selected frequencies and wave numbers can induce fast convective transports of alpha particles at the speed of order valpha ∼ (PRF/nα∈0)ρp, where PRF is the ICRF wave power density, nα is the alpha-particle density, ∈0 is the alpha-particle birth energy, and ρp is the poloidal gyroradius of alpha particles at the birth energy. Application to International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) plasma is studied and possible antenna designs to control alpha-particle flux are discussed.
