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In quickest review, NRC approves 20-year renewal for Robinson
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed the Robinson nuclear power plant’s operating license in record time, the agency announced last week.
The subsequent license renewal process for the Hartsville, S.C., facility was completed within 12 months, according to the NRC. The process has typically taken 18 months. This was the first license renewal review conducted under the directive of Executive Order 14300 to streamline processes like renewing operating licenses.
R. H. Fowler, Robert N. Morris, James A. Rome
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 2 | September 1991 | Pages 200-207
Technical Paper | Plasma Heating System | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29690
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Neutral beam injection into the Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) is studied using Monte Carlo methods. The detailed geometry of ATF to properly calculate aperture, shine-through, orbit, and charge-exchange losses, as well as the net plasma heating, is included. Also, the beam geometry (including the source geometry), beam divergence, and focusing are carefully modeled. The dependence of plasma heating on the injection angle is determined. The results indicate that net plasma heating is lower for perpendicular injection than for tangential injection because of large orbit and charge-exchange losses. However, this difference is partially offset by the need to use a smaller aperture during tangential injection to prevent excessive heating of the vacuum vessel. Shine-through losses are significant for low-density perpendicular injection.