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NRC issues Palisades’ final environmental assessment of no significant findings
The Palisades nulear power plant received a final “clean bill” of environmental assessment impact from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission today.
The NRC’s staff EA and conclusion of no significant environmental impact for the Covert, Mich., plant, which plans to restart after operations were halted three years ago this month due to economic hardships in the energy market.
S. Manservisi, V. G. Molinari, A. Nespoli
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | May 1995 | Pages 237-244
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30386
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The plasma generated in a spherical pinch device consists of a linear discharge along the diameter of a spherical vessel and of an implosion that compresses the linear plasma. Because the linear discharge by itself is found to emit pulses of soft X rays, this phenomenon is investigated by considering a spatially uniform plasma subjected to an electric field. With an appropriate change of variables, a one-dimensional time-independent Boltzmann Fokker-Planck equation is transformed into a confluent hypergeometric equation. The electron distribution function is then calculated in closed form together with the density current to obtain the X-ray spectra from such plasmas.
