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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.”
Yasuyuki Itoh, Tohru Sugawara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 12 | Number 1 | July 1987 | Pages 153-159
Technical Paper | Plasma Heating System | doi.org/10.13182/FST87-A25059
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A multimode analysis has been carried out to clarify growing frequencies of a 1-MW, 150-GHz dual electron-beam quasi-optical gyrotron oscillator, with a cavity resonator composed of two coaxial annular mirrors. The results show that the gyrotron can be operated at a single frequency with a fundamental mode in the azimuthal direction for the present range of parameters. Its achievable efficiency is 40% when the magnetic field of the cavity is shifted after the operation mode is grown up.