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NRC’s Inspector General issues report
Overall findings of a survey of Nuclear Regulatory Commission personnel indicate that while the NRC maintains a few strengths compared to external benchmarks, results have declined since 2015 in a number of areas, according to a recent report from the NRC’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
The survey was conducted in February 2020 by Willis Towers Watson, a global risk-management, insurance brokerage, and advisory firm that has partnered with the OIG for more than 20 years to assess the NRC’s safety culture and climate, as well as other aspects of employee experience.
J. Erickson, T. Luzzi, D. Sedgley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 998-1003
Impurity Control and Vacuum Technology | dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22989
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A halo plasma scraper for a tandem mirror reactor collects the particles and power that enter the halo in the central cell. A thermal-structural design is presented for a water-cooled copper collector that sustains 40 MW loading. A vacuum system design is presented for a conductance channel and pump configuration to remove the halo particles at a designated gas pressure.
