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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.”
J. L. Sperling
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 7 | Number 2 | March 1985 | Pages 296-300
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24546
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The injection of two primary waves, with possibly different frequencies, into a plasma can result in strong nonlinear interactions if the additive or subtractive frequencies of the two waves is equal to the two-ion-hybrid or lower hybrid frequencies. The in situ generation of waves at the linear-resonant frequencies effectively constitutes an “internal antenna,“ which may alleviate the undesirable surface interactions and reflections resulting from the direct injection of waves at the linear-resonant frequencies into a plasma. It is shown that simultaneous fundamental, second-harmonic, and third-harmonic heating can be achieved in a fusion device by an appropriate choice of frequencies for the two primary waves.