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DOE announces NEPA exclusion for advanced reactors
The Department of Energy has announced that it is establishing a categorical exclusion for the application of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures to the authorization, siting, construction, operation, reauthorization, and decommissioning of advanced nuclear reactors.
According to the DOE, this significant change, which goes into effect today, “is based on the experience of DOE and other federal agencies, current technologies, regulatory requirements, and accepted industry practice.”
Hiroto Matsuura, Suguru Masuzaki, Shoichi Okamura (19P56)
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 364-366
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1403
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In devices such as Stellarator/Heliotron, nested magnetic surfaces are surrounded by the so-called separatrix layer, which consists of open field lines with various connection length to the vacuum chamber wall and/or divertor plates. In this paper, we study the strike point distribution of field lines on Compact Helical System chamber wall, especially under divertor configuration. Then, by using these distribution as the measure of neutral recycling source, Monte Carlo simulation of 3-D neutral transport is done. The results are compared with those obtained for different magnetic configuration.