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DOE on track to deliver high-burnup SNF to Idaho by 2027
The Department of Energy said it anticipated delivering a research cask of high-burnup spent nuclear fuel from Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia to Idaho National Laboratory by fall 2027. The planned shipment is part of the High Burnup Dry Storage Research Project being conducted by the DOE with the Electric Power Research Institute.
As preparations continue, the DOE said it is working closely with federal agencies as well as tribal and state governments along potential transportation routes to ensure safety, transparency, and readiness every step of the way.
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R. Ichiki, K. Hayashi, T. Kaneko, R. Hatakeyama (19P09)
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 241-243
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1362
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The collisionless electron drift wave instability in a plasma involving sheared magnetic-field-aligned positive-ion flow and negative ion species has been experimentally investigated. Surveying wide ranges of the shear strength and of the negative ion exchange fraction, which was first made possible by our new apparatus mounted in a Q machine, reveals detailed characteristics of the instability. The kinetic dispersion relation suggests that the wave observed for positive shear is the current-driven shear-modified drift wave. However, for negative shear the wave exhibits peculiar behavior which cannot be directly interpreted by the linear local theory. We also found that negative ions tend to stabilize the instability.