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NRC updating GEIS rule for new nuclear technology
The Nuclear Regulatory Agency is issuing a proposed generic environmental impact statement (GEIS) for use in reviewing applications for new nuclear reactors.
In an April 17 memo, NRC secretary Carrie Safford wrote that the commission approved NRC staff’s recommendation to publish in the Federal Register a proposed rule amending 10 CFR Part 51, “Environmental Protection Regulations for Domestic Licensing and Related Regulatory Functions.”
V. E. Moiseenko, O. Ågren (20R05)
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 160-163
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1339
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The second harmonic heating in mirrors is explicated. A new coordinate-independent form of the second harmonic term in the plasma dielectric response is derived. The second harmonic heating in the WKB limit is addressed and compared with minority heating. A newly developed three-dimensional model for the time-harmonic boundary problem for Maxwell's equations is used for second harmonic heating modeling in the reactor-scale straight field line mirror device. Computations show that the antenna Q is low and the regime of global resonance overlapping is in effect. Only a small portion of the wave energy transits through the cyclotron layer and penetrates to the central part of the trap. The power deposition is peaked at the plasma core.
