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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.”
Masaharu Seki, Shun-Ichi Himeno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 31 | Number 3 | May 1997 | Pages 333-337
Technical Paper | Experimental Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST97-A30836
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A new technique, Abel inversion for toroidal coordinates, is presented for calculating spatial distributions of an axisymmetric toroidal plasma density from observation beam incidents in the toroidal y direction. In this numerical method, inversion matrix elements are calculated analytically, and their usefulness is examined by using a hypothetical data set of beam intensity with asymmetry for the normal direction to the direction of observation, which results in a valid local plasma density. The asymmetrical character associates with fundamental fixed length dfor the toroidal coordinates.