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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.
V. S. Belikov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 436-442
Alpha Particles in Fusion Research | Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29279
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Possible excitation of thermonuclear cone instabilities caused by anisotropy in alpha-particle velocity distribution is considered in tokamak reactor plasmas for frequencies much lower than electron cyclotron frequency. In the ignited tokamak reactor experiment, for example the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), Alfvén waves are excited at frequencies comparable to alpha-particle cyclotron frequency. The growth rate, the region of instability localization in the plasma cross section, and the marginal stability boundaries in the n-T plane are determined for cone Alfvén wave instability.
