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Supreme Court rules against Texas in interim storage case
The Supreme Court voted 6–3 against Texas and a group of landowners today in a case involving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing of a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, reversing a decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to grant the state and landowners Fasken Land and Minerals (Fasken) standing to challenge the license.
Martha H. Redi, Stewart J. Zweben, Glenn Bateman
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 13 | Number 1 | January 1988 | Pages 57-86
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25085
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The possibility of obtaining ignition in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) by means of very centrally peaked density profiles is examined. It is shown that local central alpha heating can be made to exceed local central energy losses (“central ignition”) under global conditions for which Q 1. Time-dependent one-dimensional transport simulations with a simplified transport model show that the normal global ignition requirements are substantially relaxed for plasmas with peaked density profiles. More realistic simulations with recently developed profile-consistent microinstability based models for electron and ion confinement show that TFTR may form a small centrally ignited region if peaked central density can be maintained.
