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NRC to conduct environmental review of GLE’s enrichment facility
As part of its environmental review of Global Laser Enrichment’s planned Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility (PLEF) in Kentucky, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced it will conduct a scoping process ahead of preparing an environmental impact statement for GLE’s license application. Announced in the September 5 Federal Register, the NRC is seeking written comments on the scope of the EIS until October 6.
Osamu Mitarai, Akira Hirose, Harvey M. Skarsgard
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 22 | Number 2 | September 1992 | Pages 227-235
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30105
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The method of the operation path on the generalized ignition contour map () is used to treat the ignition accessibility of a deuterium-tritium tokamak reactor for different types of confinement scaling including offset linear scaling. It is shown that the operation paths and ignition boundary on the plane as well as the nτE-T plane provide a useful ignition criterion for various types of scaling. The International Thermonuclear Experiment Reactor (ITER) tokamaks with low and high toroidal fields are used as examples.
