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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.
James W. van Dam, Guo-Yong Fu, C. Z. Cheng
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 461-474
Alpha Particles in Fusion Research | Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29282
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The effects of thermonuclear alpha particles on the stability of global-type shear Alfvén waves in toroidal geometry in an ignition tokamak experiment are described. The presence of finite toroidicity can lead to stabilization of the global shear Alfvén eigenmode. However, toroidicity induces a new global shear Alfvén eigenmode that can be strongly destabilized via transit resonance with alpha particles. In the proposed International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), due to its large size and low density, this latter mode is found to be benign.
