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Ho Nieh, TVA board members, and nuclear fuel recycling bill head to Senate floor
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Ho Nieh, the Trump administration’s nominee to be a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and four new board members of the Tennessee Valley Authority were approved in a vote today by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and head to the Senate floor for a final vote.
The committee also voted to advance to the Senate floor the Nuclear REFUEL Act of 2025 (S. 2082), which would smooth the regulatory pathway for recycling used nuclear fuel.
President Donald nominated Nieh on July 30 to serve as NRC commissioner for the remainder of a term set to expire June 30, 2029, which was held by former NRC commissioner Chris Hanson, who Trump fired in June.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 3 | April 2011 | Pages 526-538
Lecture | Fourth ITER International Summer School (IISS2010) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11694
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The creation of large-sized magnetic islands through excitation of neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs) and the concommitant degradation of energy confinement is a major concern for ITER. The basic physical mechanisms governing the dynamics of this instability are introduced, and important experimental observations and techniques of controlling or suppressing these modes are briefly reviewed. The effects of plasma rotation on the excitation threshold and saturated island sizes of NTMs, as observed in many recent experiments, and their present understanding as obtained from model analytical and numerical simulations are discussed.