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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.”
Dilip K. Bhadra, Cheng Chu, Unto A. Peuron
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 3 | Number 3 | May 1983 | Pages 329-334
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A20858
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We have studied the feasibility of an efficient current-drive scheme using radio-frequency (rf) waves on the alpha particles produced in a reactor tokamak. Traveling fast waves, generated as waveguide modes in the plasma, are found to be particularly suitable for implementing such a scheme. The scheme involves using rf power to prohibit the alpha particles from slowing down isotropically and in pushing the alpha particles in a preferential direction and thus form an alpha-particle beam, which, through interaction with electrons, sustains a current. Numerical estimates for the current-drive efficiency were obtained using plasma parameters characteristic of the Argonne National Laboratory design of a reactor tokamak.