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DOE fast tracks test reactor projects: What to know
The Department of Energy today named 10 companies that want to get a test reactor critical within the next year using the DOE’s offer to authorize test reactors outside of national laboratories. As first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released by President Trump on May 23 and in the request for applications for the Reactor Pilot Program released June 18, the companies must use their own money and sites—and DOE authorization—to get reactors operating. What they won’t need is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.
K. H. Finken
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 49 | Number 2 | February 2006 | Pages 240-247
Technical Paper | Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics - Edge Physics and Exhaust | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1123
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The Dynamic Ergodic Divertor (DED) has recently been taken into operation on the TEXTOR tokamak. The main aim in this context is the study of its divertor properties. After an introduction into the theory of ergodization, the design of the DED is presented. The Chirikov parameter describing the level of ergodization reaches a level of up to four if the perturbation current is applied in an optimized way. Finally the rich physics options of the DED are discussed.
