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Report: New recommendations for nuclear waste
Today, a bipartisan group of experts including energy consultant Lake Barrett and former NRC chair Allison Macfarlane have published a report titled The Path Forward for Nuclear Waste in the U.S.
The report recommends a new solution for managing domestic nuclear waste—one that centers around the foundation of an independent corporation led by reactor owners. Responsibility for waste management transport, storage, and disposal would be managed by this corporation rather than the Department of Energy.
Y. Itikawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 3 | May 2013 | Pages 333-337
Technical Paper | Selected papers from IAEA-NFRI Technical Meeting on Data Evaluation for Atomic, Molecular and Plasma-Material Interaction Processes in Fusion, September 4-7, 2012, Daejeon, Republic of Korea | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16439
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Evaluation of cross-section data for various collision processes is now being made by many groups. But the results (i.e., recommended data) are often different from each other depending on who evaluates them. An evaluation (or validation) of the evaluated data is necessary. Three examples of the activity are shown here: (a) consistency check of the total scattering cross section, (b) calculation of the swarm parameters, and (c) chemical modeling. For the first two cases, a demonstration is performed with the use of the cross-section sets recommended for the electron collisions with N2 and O2 by the present author.