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Proposed FY 2025 budget beefs up EPA repository expertise
Funding in President Biden’s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget may signal movement toward the promulgation of a new generic Environmental Protection Agency standard for high-level nuclear waste repositories in the United States.
J. W. Yoo, Y. S. Lee, A. C. England, Z. Y. Chen, W. C. Kim, Y. K. Oh, M. Kwon
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 90-93
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12411
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Hard X-ray (HXR) emission from KSTAR superconducting Tokamak has been measured during discharges which includes ECH assisted start up. Since the HXR signal indicates energetic electrons we can assume that runaway electrons are being generated. On KSTAR two tangentially arranged NaI(Tl) detectors are installed to measure the HXR intensity and energy in the forward and backward directions, respectively. We investigate the HXR emission trends in KSTAR tokamak and how the ECH heating source affects the generation of runway electrons.
