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Meeting a deadline set in President Trump’s May 23 executive order “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” the DOE on June 30 updated information on its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking and implementation procedures and published on its website an interim final rule that rescinds existing regulations alongside new implementing procedures.
A. E. Pontau, M. E. Malinowski A. A. Ver Berkmoes, S. E. Guthrie, D. M. Goebel, G. A. Campbell, R. W. Conn, J. B. Whitley, R. D. Watson, W. B. Gauster, B. L. Doyle, K. H. Dippel, K. H. Finken, G. Fuchs
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 6 | Number 2 | September 1984 | Pages 384-392
Technical Paper | Selected papers from the Ninth International Vacuum Congress and the Fifth International Conference on Solid Surfaces (Madrid, Spain, September 26-October 1, 1983) | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23210
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A collaborative program is underway to field a comprehensive pump limiter experimental program on TEXTOR: Advanced Limiter Test-I (ALT-I). Either of two interchangeable limiter modules may be attached to an insertion/rotation mechanism to direct particles to the ∼1 m3 pumping chamber. Pumping is provided primarily by a solid getter assembly at ∼20,000 1/sec. Variation of geometric dimensions and gas puffing in the modules will allow the study of plasma and neutral interaction in differing recycle regimes. Multiple diagnostic systems are incorporated into the pump limiter design for use in conjunction with TEXTOR plasma diagnostics. Initial experiments are scheduled for December 1983.