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The Great North: Canada begins the process of licensing a geologic repository
On January 5, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), the not-for-profit organization responsible for managing Canada’s nuclear waste, announced that it has submitted to the Canadian government an initial project description for its proposed deep geologic repository to hold Canada’s spent nuclear fuel.
G. A. Carlson, D. E. Baldwin, W. L. Barr, B. M. Boghosian, R. H. Bulmer, R. B. Campbell, R. S. Devoto, G. W. Hamilton, B. M. Johnston, W. N. Kumai, B. G. Logan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 513-518
Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22915
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The two-year Mirror Advanced Reactor Study (MARS) has resulted in the conceptual design of a commercial, electricity-producing fusion reactor based on tandem mirror confinement. The physics basis for the MARS reactor was developed through work in two highly coupled areas of plasma engineering: magnetics and plasma performance.
